Godspeed ship replica, Jamestown Settlement, Virginia, USA. Godspeed, under Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, was one of three ships (along with Susan Constant and Discovery) of the English Virginia Company on the 1606-1607 voyage that founded Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the Americas. All 39 passengers and 13 sailors she carried on that voyage were male. Built in 2006, the Godspeed replica is 88 feet long from tip to stern. Jamestown Settlement, operated by the state's Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, chronicles 1600s Virginia and the convergence of Powhatan Indian, European, and west central African cultures. Created as part of the 350th anniversary celebration in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park, Jamestown Settlement is adjacent to the complementary "Historic Jamestowne" museum (which is on Jamestown Island, is the actual historic and archaeological site where the first settlers lived, and is run by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia).
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