DISCOVERY (1602 SHIP)

''Susan Constant'', ''Godspeed'', and ''Discovery'', commemorated on the Virginia State Quarter.
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Type:	Barque
Hull:	Wood
Propulsion:	Sail
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'''Discovery''' was a 20-ton "fly-boat" of the British East India Company, launched before 1602. She took part in six expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage.
''Discovery'' was the smallest of three ships that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia in 1607. When Captain Newport returned to London, England, he left the ''Discovery'' behind for the use of the colonists.
Replicas of the ''Discovery'' and her sisters, the larger ''Susan Constant'' and ''Godspeed'', are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. A new ''Discovery'' is being built in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and was launched in September 2006. The current replica in Jamestown will be shipped to for a tour of the United Kingdom as part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Virginia's founding.
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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Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas)
Discovery replica at Museum in Docklands, London