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. A vessel of the same name and size traveled to the New World seventeen years prior as the flagship of the first expedition of Martin Pring. Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, usually with multiple decks. ... Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) The Mayflower was the ship which transported the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England to North Virginia (which later became part of the United States of America) in 1620, leaving Plymouth on September 6 and dropping anchor near Cape Cod on November 11 (both... This article is about the colonists of North America. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ... Abenaki couple Martin Pring (1580-1646) was an English explorer from Bristol, England. ...

The Leiden Separatists bought the ship Speedwell in Holland, and boarded it at Delfshaven. They then sailed to Southampton, England to meet the Mayflower, which had been chartered by the merchant investors. In Southampton they joined with other Separatists and the additional colonists hired by the investors. Leyden redirects here. ... Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. ... View Delfshaven is a former town on the Meuse, and now a neighbourhood of Rotterdam. ... Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ...

The two ships began the voyage on 5 August 1620, but the Speedwell was leaky and returned to Dartmouth to be refitted at great expense and time. On the second attempt, Mayflower and Speedwell sailed about 100 leagues beyond Land's End in Cornwall, the Speedwell was again found to be leaky. Both vessels returned to Plymouth where the Speedwell was sold. August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... The town seen from the River Dart Dartmouth is a town in Devon in the south-west of England. ... League is a unit of distance long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. ... Lands End (Cornish name: Pedn a Wollaz) is a headland on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance, Cornwall, at the extreme south-western tip of the British mainland. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Plymouth is a city in the South West of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon. ...

11 people from the Speedwell boarded the Mayflower, leaving 20 people to return to London while a combined company of 101 continued the voyage. For a third time, the Mayflower headed for the new world. She left Plymouth on 6 September 1620 and entered Cape Cod Harbor on 11 Nov. 1620. The Speedwell eventually followed, arriving at Plymouth Colony exactly one year later on 10 Nov. 1621. } London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... This article is about the day of the year. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... Astronaut photo of Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay Cape Cod (1033 km²) is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the Easternmost portion of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... The Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 until 1691. ... Events February 9 - Gregory XV is elected pope. ...

References

• Indian Battles: with Incidents in the Early History of New England. 1859. By Rev. Henry White. New York: D.W. Evans & Co. 677 Broadway.
• Richard F. Whalen, Truro: The Story of a Cape Cod Town (2002)

The Speedwell was built in 1577, under the name Swiftsure, as part of English preparations for war against Spain. She participated in the fight against the Armada, and during Essex' 1596 Azores expedition she served as the ship of his second in command, Sir Gilly Merick. Evidently she was a gallant ship, since at least two subsequent ships of the British Navy bore the same name, a ship of the line during the Napoleonic Wars and a modern nuclear submarine. After hostilities with Spain wound down, she was decommissioned in 1605, rebuilt, and renamed the Speedwell. There is a description of her plying the Bordeaux wine trade in Act V of George Ruggle's 1615 Cambridge comedy "Ignoramus."