Godspeed Sails 2006

Subject: Godspeed Sail 2006
From: ALF
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 08:10 PM

Hello,
America's 400th Anniversary sails up the Eastern Seaboard with port visits by the tall ship Godspeed, a replica of one of the ships that brought America's first permanent English settlers to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. A Landing Party Festival features live music, family entertainment, and interactive exhibits that give a glimpse into early 17th century life and America's legacies of democracy, cultural diversity, free enterprise and exploration as they continue today. Open & free to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekends. For details, visit www.Americas400th anniversary.com.

The 2006 Godspeed Sail schedule:

   South Street Seaport Museum in New York City from June 27 – July 6

   John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse & Fan Pier in Boston from July 14 – July 19

• Newport Yachting Center in Newport, R.I. from July 25 – July 30

While sea chanteys weren't likely to have been heard onboard the original Godspeed, they will be sung by me in Boston on 7/18 & 19. Any recommendations on additional repertoire would be greatly appreciated.
Alison

Subject: RE: Godspeed Sails 2006
From: KathWestra
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 10:15 PM

Hey Alison,
Have fun with the Godspeed gig. I was lucky enough to see the replica of Godspeed (the middle-sized boat of the three that sailed to Jamestown in 1607)launched from the boatyard where she was built in Rockport, Maine a couple of months ago. She's a beautiful little boat. (Emphasis on LITTLE! If its promoters of the sail are calling it a "tall ship" that's a bit of a stretch, although it does have three masts.) It's actually pretty amazing to think that 52 people made the long voyage across the Atlantic on such a very small ship. A replica of the smallest Jamestown vessel, the pinnace Discovery, is being built down in Damariscotta at the shipyard where folkie and luthier Nic Apollonio works. The Godspeed launch in Rockport interested me enough that I looked up some stuff about it. Here 'tis, for what it's worth:

December 20, 1606 The Godspeed departed London in the company of the flagship Susan Constant and the pinnace Discovery, and arrived April 26, 1607, at Virginia.

The Godspeed departed Virginia on June 22, 1607, in the company of the Susan Constant and arrived in England on July 29, 1607. (cit. 5)

Sources:
(1) "Bristol and America", Introduction.
(2) "The Cradle of the Republic", pages 8-9.
(3) "Hotten's Lists", Virginia Musters
(4) "The Virginia Adventure", pages 113, 121, & 123-125.
(5) "Ships of the World"
(6) "Saints and Strangers"


Ship and Passenger Information:

Type: Not given, but of "flyboat" design (cit. 5)
Burthen: 40 tons (cit. 2, pages 8-9; and cit. 4, pages 113, 121, & 123-125; cit. 6, page 129; )
                55-70 tons (cit. 5)
Length (waterline): ~48 feet (cit. 4)

Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, Commander
    (Previously captain of the Concord on a voyage to Maine and Massachusetts in 1602.)

Passengers:

52 settlers (cit. 5)

No passengers are listed giving this vessel name in the Virginia Musters of 1624/5. Any passengers living at that time, therefore, would be amongst those listed without arrival information in the Musters.

Subject: RE: Godspeed Sails 2006
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM

Hmmm, I may be in Boston around that time, showing my daughter's Swedish friend a bit of American heritage. What time(s) will you be singing, Alison?
(Greetings from another Allison, sometimes known here as Two-LLs!)

Subject: RE: Godspeed Sails 2006
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 02:47 PM

Hi Alison
Good luck aboard, it's all looks interesting. I may be able to make it on the 19th but more than likel it'd be Saturday before. You may be luckly enough to find yourself (on the oppisite peir) in the company of 4 schooners (I know that the others have left). I was in Boston 2 weeks & got to veiw the Juan Sabastian from Bolivia, the Spirit Of Mass, the Roseway, the Bluenose II (got to go aboard her & sing on her when she arrived in Portsmouth NH a couple days later), 2 other Maine schooners & a brig leaving port. Are you looking for ideas for songs?
You do know enough shanties to get by but the "Jamestown Homeward Bound" would be a good one along with "Boston Harbor", "Cape Cod Girls" & the "Schooner Industry". "Captain Ward" would be in the same timeline as would be "John Dory" & "Sir Andrew Barton".
Barry

Subject: RE: Godspeed Sails 2006
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 05:02 PM

I'll be performing will she's in Boston and Newport. STop by, anyone, we'll have some songs together.

Marc Bernier

Subject: RE: Godspeed Sails 2006
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 05:26 PM

Hi Marc
When & what time will you be performing while she's in Boston.
Barry