Jamestown Settlement Ships

The Jamestown settlement ships are reconstructions of the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, the three Virginia Company vessels that carried the colonists who founded Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in May 1607. The replicas are moored at the Jamestown Settlement living-history museum near Williamsburg, operated by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. The Susan Constant was the largest of the three at roughly 116 tons; the Discovery, a small pinnace of about 20 tons, was the smallest. Current replicas were built in the 1980s and 1990s.