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	Ships of the Old Navy, A History of Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the eastern Mediterranean, and particularly in the Aegean and around the Ionian islands during 1826-7, while warships from Britain, Russia and France were actively defending Greece against the Turks, Greek pirates were plundering British ships and Greek warships were seaching neutral ships and calling all cargo Turkish property.
		The names of all ships and the surnames of British naval officers and men are in upper case.
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	Mayflower II Background Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mayflower II is a reproduction of the ship that brought a small group of English colonists, popularly known as the "Pilgrims," to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
		No pains were spared to make the ship as accurate as possible, from the carefully selected English oak timbers to the hand-sewn linen canvas sails, true hemp cordage, hand-forged nails and Stockholm tar of the sort used on 17th-century ships.
		She was toasted from a golden loving cup that was then pitched into the water, as was the 17th-century practice, and from which it was quickly retrieved by a diver, in the traditional manner.
	www.plimoth.org /about/presskit/mayflowerBG.asp (1674 words)

	ship.html
		The ship lay dormant for about two years, at which point it was appraised for probate, and its value was determined to be £128-08-04, an extremely low value (had it been in sailing condition, £700 could be expected).
		The ship was not in very good condition, being called "in ruinis" in a 1624 High Court of Admiralty record (HCA 3/30, folio 227) written in Latin.
		Ships in that condition were more valuable as wood (which was in shortage in England at the time), so the Mayflower was most likely broken apart and sold as scrap.
	members.aol.com /calebj/ship.html (497 words)

	Mayflower, ship. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		ship that in 1620 brought the Pilgrims from England to New England.
		She set out from Southampton in company with the Speedwell, the vessel that had borne some of the English separatists from the Netherlands back to England for the momentous voyage.
		However, the Speedwell proved unseaworthy, and the ships put back to Plymouth, where the Mayflower took on some of the smaller ship’s passengers and supplies.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Mayflowe.html (283 words)

	Glossems on Historical Events, Conditions and Movements: Immigrant Ships: Halifax.
		As was the case for all the "Palatine Ships," the Ann was obliged to call in at Portsmouth for official inspection before proceeding to sea.
		The Speedwell was a snow of 190 tons6.
		Also, it should be pointed out, that these desperate people would not be allowed by the port officials at Halifax to immediately disembark but would often have to continue to stay aboard the vessels for a number of days while those in officialdom went about their checks and re-checks.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/Gloss/ImmigrantShips1750-52.htm (933 words)

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		Leslie Wilcox's The Mayflower and Speedwell in Dartmouth Harbor (1971)
		It also changed the dynamics of the Pilgrims' expectations for settlement: the Speedwell was their own ship, with the expectation that she would serve as a source of revenue, as a fishing boat, once they established a settlement.
		More distressingly, for the Pilgrims, the Speedwell was their insurance against being cut off from the rest of civilization in case of disaster, as the Mayflower would return to England after transporting their passengers.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /imagearchive/his3487/mercado/speedwell.html (796 words)

	Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives
		Compared to the massive slave ships sailing from Liverpool, some of which carried more than fifty crewmen and as many as five or six hundred captives, Rhode Island slave ships tended to be fairly small, with capacities ranging from fifty to two hundred captives and crews as small as ten or fifteen men.
		Once a ship was fully loaded, owners delivered a formal letter of instructions to the captain, specifying his destination, outlining his responsibilities, and making provision for various contingencies, including the loss of cargo, captain, or crew.
		Ships sailed south with a vast array of provisions, including candles, tobacco, tar, salt fish (the staple diet of African slaves), furniture, flour, and horses, which was exchanged chiefly for sugar and molasses, as well as for cotton, bills of exchange, and slaves.
	dl.lib.brown.edu /slaveryandjustice/browse.php?verb=seeall (9669 words)

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		John Chappell was born about 1580 in England and was later the Mast of the Speedwell which sailed from London to Virginia in 1635 at which time Capt. John apparently did not stay in the colonies.
		All ships were required by law, not only to sail heavily armed with guns, cutlasses, and mounted cannon, but to carry a crew skilled in the use of these weapons.
		"The little ship Speedwell, chartered and fitted out in Holland, was 60 tons burden." She was a three-masted barque, having her sails square-rigged, excepting her mizzen-sail, which was schooner-rigged.
	www.geocities.com /widetrackgt2000/captjohnchappell.html (737 words)

	Speedwell (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Speedwell was a 60-ton ship, the smaller of the two ships (along with Mayflower) intended to carry the Pilgrim Fathers to North America.
		She participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada, and during Essex' 1596 Azores expedition she served as the ship of his second in command, Sir Gilly Merick.
		The two ships began the voyage on August 5, 1620, but the Speedwell was leaky and returned to Dartmouth to be refitted at great expense and time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speedwell_(ship) (418 words)

	Decades History Timelines - Voyage of the Mayflower Pilgrims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Speedwell, the companion ship to the Mayflower, begins to leak almost immediately and the two ships put in at Dartmouth.
		The Speedwell is mended and the ships depart on Sept. 1 (new date).
		The two ships put in at Plymouth, England and the decision is made to abandon the Speedwell.
	www.decades.com /Timeline/n/88.htm (464 words)

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	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-Se---Th/Speedwell.html (134 words)

	Coleridge
		Coleridge's ship the Speedwell was a two-masted merchant brig, lightly armed with fourteen guns, but carrying a heavy cargo of eighty-four cannons in her hold destined for Trieste.
		She was part of the spring-time convoy of thirty-five ships, escorted by ten men-o'-war and the flagship HMS Leviathan, going to join Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean and carrying supplies to British and allied ports in the war against France and Spain.
		The ship was again becalmed, and he thought the flapping sails were fish dying on the deck.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/holmes-coleridge.html (6084 words)

	Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers
		Around that time, there were supposedly four different ships with this same name, so we do not know exactly which one it was that sailed to America.
		On July 22, 1620, the emigrants boarded the 60 ton ship 'Speedwell' (left stamp) in the Dutch port Delftshaven and sailed to Southampton.
		There, the 'Speedwell's provisions and goods were loaded onto the 'Mayflower'; the 'Speedwell' was given up and stayed behind.
	www.palouse.net /hobbies/shipstamps/Topics/html/pilgrim.htm (1101 words)

	PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE
		The ship was made ready at Southampton with a passenger list that included English Separatists, hired help (among them Myles Standish, a professional soldier, and John Alden, a cooper), and other colonists who were to be taken along at the insistence of the London businessmen who were helping to finance the expedition.
		Both the Speedwell and the Mayflower, carrying a total of about 120 passengers, sailed from Southampton on August 15, but they were twice forced back by dangerous leaks on the Speedwell.
		In 1964 the ship went on a brief sail, and crews unfurled her sails briefly in 1990 and 1991, afterthe square-rigged ship went through major renovations to make her more seaworthy.
	pilgrims.net /plymouth/history/mayflower.html (848 words)

	KWTX \| Thanksgiving History
		The first four ships were the Mayflower (1620), the Fortune (1621), the Anne and the Little James (1623).
		The two ships began the voyage, but the Speedwell leaked so badly that the expedition had to return to England, first to Dartmouth and then to Plymouth.
		At one point, the ship’s main beam cracked and had to be repaired using a large iron screw.
	www.kwtx.com /unclassified/1156976.html (1127 words)

	MayflowerHistory.com
		The storm was so severe, in fact, that Master Christopher Jones, the ship's captain, had some of the cargo, and some of the ship's provisions, thrown overboard to lighten the load and save everyone's lives.
		One deposition in the case stated that Jones had been master of the ship for a couple years prior to the 1609 sailing, so he apparently came into possession of the ship around 1607; he was a quarter-owner of the ship, the other owners at the time being John Moore, Robert Childe, and Thomas Short.
		Whether the ship was new at that time, or whether it had been previously owned, cannot be satisfactorily answered with the available records.
	www.mayflowerhistory.com /History/MayflowerShip.php (981 words)

	Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers
		Around that time, there were supposedly four different ships with this same name, so we do not know exactly which one it was that sailed to America.
		On July 22, 1620, the emigrants boarded the 60 ton ship 'Speedwell' (left stamp) in the Dutch port Delftshaven and sailed to Southampton.
		Shortly after departure the 'Speedwell' was found to be leaking and both ships returned to Dartmouth (right stamp).
	www.shipsonstamps.org /Topics/html/pilgrim.htm (1101 words)

	Mayflower (vessel) - MSN Encarta
		The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists had been authorized to settle.
		The Mayflower remained anchored for the next few weeks while a party from the ship explored Cape Cod and its environs in search of a satisfactory site for the colony.
		Peregrine White, the first European child born in New England, was delivered on the Mayflower in the interim.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573892/Mayflower_(vessel).html (373 words)

	The Sylva Herald and Ruralite - Ruralite Cafe: 06/21/01 Gastonia business is named for Speedwell store
		The two ships began their voyage to America together, but the Speedwell leaked so badly that the expedition returned to England, first to Dartmouth, and then to Plymouth.
		And there are several species of the genus Veronica that have speedwell as their common name.
		The Speedwell name has proven more fortunate for Randy's business than it was for the long-ago ship that had to turn back to England.
	www.thesylvaherald.com /ruralite062101.htm (790 words)

	Historic Speedwell - Morristown, NJ - The S.S. Savannah
		Yet this elegant ship was the first steam-powered vessel to cross and recross the Atlantic Ocean, returning without an engine bolt or screw out of place.
		On each side she had a wheel made of wooden paddles linked by iron chains; when used as a sailing ship, the paddles could be compressed like a fan and the side wheels secured on the deck.
		Although the ship was said to have cost about $36,000 to build and $30,000 more to fit with machinery, these figures do not include salaries and operational costs.
	parks.morris.nj.us /speedwell/sss/sss.html (2664 words)

	Annie's Mayflower Day Page
		One infant was born on the ship as it lay anchored at Cape Cod.
		For several hours it appeared that the ship was in danger of running aground and being wrecked.
		The ship stopped in England, and the expedition was joined by other English people who hoped to better their lives.
	www.annieshomepage.com /mayflowerday.html (3159 words)

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		It is to what concerns their ships, and especially that one which has passed into history as "the Pilgrim bark," the MAY-FLOWER, and to her pregnant voyage, that the succeeding chapters chiefly relate.
		Where the SPEEDWELL lay while being "refitted" has not been ascertained, though presumably at Delfshaven, whence she sailed, though possibly at one of the neighboring larger ports, where her new masts and cordage could be "set up" to best advantage.
		As several weeks would be required to fit the ship for her long voyage on such service, and as she sailed from London July 15, her charter-party must certainly have been signed by June 20, 1620.
	www.jamesgoulding.com /americanhistoryebooks/Colonial_Period/mayflower.txt (12660 words)

	Aboard the Mayflower, 1620
		So some of the chiefs of the company, perceiving the mariners to fear the condition of the ship, as appeared by their mutterings, they entered into serious consultation with the master and other officers of the ship, to consider whether to return, rather than to cast themselves into desperate and inevitable peril.
		But in examining of all opinions, the master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm underwater; and for the buckling of the main beam, there was a great iron screw the passengers brought out of Holland, which would raise the beam into its place; which was done.
		And as for the decks and upper works they would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long hold firm, they would be safe as long as they did not over-stress her with sails.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /mayflower.htm (947 words)

	The Story of the Pilgrims III: The Crossing to America
		However, the captain of the Speedwell soon signalled his ship was taking on water and they had to return to port and wait for the expensive repairs to take place.
		Some of the Speedwell's passengers transferred to the Mayflower, and on 06 September 1620 the ship was finally underway.
		Bradford makes frequent mention of the importance of the Pilgrims' faith in helping them through their many trials, and it is not hard to see how this small band of faithful would need to rely on their god and each other to survive such harrowing times.
	www.millsgen.com /gen/hist/pilstor3.htm (547 words)

	Nova Scotia - German Passenger Lists, Betty 1752
		Most of the passengers on this ship were from Montbeliard, a protestant province in France ruled by the ducal family of Württemberg.
		A number of other passengers on this ship were from Switzerland and a few from Germany.
		It is not possible to identify all the people on the ship because often a family would take an older parent or step children who are not easy to identify in the available sources, however all those in each household were listed under "Freight".
	www.progenealogists.com /palproject/ns/1752betty.htm (395 words)

	Amazon.com: The Speedwell Voyage: A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the Eighteenth Century: Books: Kenneth Poolman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The story is based on the real-life adventures of George Shelvocke, commander of the 22-gun privateer Speedwell that set sail in 1718 to steal treasure from Spanish ships in the South Seas.
		Though not without his shortcomings, Shelvocke is shown to be a natural leader who persuades the men to build a small vessel with timber from the wreck and trees hacked from the forest.
		This is the true story of the privateering voyage of the Speedwell and another ship named the Success, the purpose of which was to take Spanish prizes in the Pacific (hopefully the Manilla Galleon, which carried gold from South America to Manilla).
	www.amazon.com /Speedwell-Voyage-Piracy-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1557506930 (2048 words)

	Plymouth Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A small ship, the Speedwell, carried them to Southampton, England, where they were to join another group of Separatists and pick up a second ship.
		At the English port of Plymouth some of the Speedwell's passengers were regrouped on the Mayflower, and on September 16, the historic voyage began.
		This model, which is in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, gives the ship's dimensions as 90 ft (27.4 m) long, with a 64-ft (19.5-m) keel, 26-ft (7.9-m) beam, and a hold 11 ft (3.4 m) deep.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/plymouth.htm (1737 words)

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