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'''Godspeed''' was one of the three ships of the English Virginia Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All 39 passengers and 13 sailors she carried on that voyage were male. The route included a stop in the Canary Islands and, with better wind, would have taken about two months to traverse; instead, the voyage lasted 144 days.
The 40-ton ''Godspeed'' was a brigantine estimated to have been 68 feet in length. The most recent replica was built in Rockport, Maine, and completed in early 2006. Its length over all is 88 feet, with the deck 65.5 feet long, and the main mast 71.5 feet tall, carrying 2,420 square feet of sail.
Replicas of the ''Godspeed'' and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger ''Susan Constant'' and the smaller ''Discovery'', are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site.
In May 2007, the United States Postal Service issued the first 41 cent denomination first class stamp. The stamp had an image of the ''Susan Constant'', the ''Godspeed'', and the ''Discovery''.

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★ Price, David A. ''Love and Hate in Jamestown''. Alfred A. Knopf (2003). Chapter 2.

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Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas)