This is my photograph of the Godspeed located at the Jamestown Settlement’s recreated fort site just off the island.

The Godspeed is one of the three ships re-creations that brought the English colonists to Virginia in 1607 and are moored at Jamestown Settlement’s pier for visitors to explore. The other two replica ships at Jamestown are the Susan Constance, the largest, and the Discovery, the smallest. Visitors can learn about the four-and-a-half-month voyage from England and take part in periodic demonstrations of 17th-century piloting and navigation. The replica vessel Godspeed is considered to be a full-size model of the ship, which reached Jamestown in May of 1607 when America's first permanent English settlement was established there.

The new Godspeed was constructed on site at Jamestown Festival Park in 1984 and was outfitted at Newport News Shipbuilding by then present and retired employees who generously volunteered their time and skills. Members of the original crew of the replica Godspeed spent countless hours as volunteers to put the finishing touches on the vessel and to make her ready for the Atlantic crossing. In 1985 the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation re-enacted the historic voyage, which carried the 104 English settlers to Jamestown on the three ships. Rather than using all three modern replicas of the original ships, the foundation chose to use the middle size vessel Godspeed only. When all was ready she was brought over on a container ship and the voyage of 1985 began on April 30th from near Blackwall, London to Jamestown, Virginia.