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Speedwell (ship)

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Speedwell could refer to the following ships:

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Sailing ships

  • Speedwell (1577 ship), transported Pilgrims with Mayflower
  • A vessel of the same name and size travelled to North America earlier in 1603 under Martin Pring
  • A vessel Speedwell in 1656 made a voyage from England to Boston, carrying a party of Quakers including Christopher Holder and John Copeland. Arriving in Massachusetts Bay Colony under the Governorship of John Endecott, they were deported for religious reasons and obliged to return to Britain. In the following year another party, including six of the Speedwell company, returned via Rhode Island aboard Woodhouse: one of them became one of the Boston martyrs, judicially executed by Endecott.
  • A Speedwell was built in 1663 by Francis Baylie in Bristol, England
  • Speedwell, a privateer ship, was wrecked 1720, captained by George Shelvocke
  • A Speedwell in 1751 made a voyage from Rotterdam to Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying a party of "Foreign Protestants" including Johann Andreas Fultz. Captained by a Joseph Wilson, she left Rotterdam on 18 May 1751 with 229 passengers, and arrived in Halifax with 212, on either 10 or 21 July 1751.
  • A ship Speedwell in 1761 arrived in New London, Connecticut, captained by Timothy Miller. The ship left the region of Senegambia with 95 slaves aboard. According to the New London Gazette, the ship landed in New London with 74 slaves surviving the voyage.
  • HMS Speedwell, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
  • HMRC Speedwell (1797), later HMS Linnet
  • USS Hancock (1775), the former schooner Speedwell
  • Speedwell (WAGL-245), a Speedwell-class USCG seagoing buoy tender
  • Other users

  • Speedwell, a Wey barge in the UK National Waterways Museum
  • References

    Speedwell (ship) Wikipedia