POPHAM COLONY

 

 

The Virginia as drawn by John HuntThe Virginia

Construction of the pinnace Virginia was the major accomplishment of the Popham Colony. This well-found ship, the first of what was to become a major industry on the Kennebec River in the centuries to come, carried some of the colonists home in the fall of 1608 and made at least one more trans-Atlantic voyage to Jamestown the following year. Tangible evidence of her construction was brought to life when a caulking iron was found among the artifacts on the floor of the storehouse during the 1999 excavations.

                                                                   

                                                                   

                                                 Modern reconstruction of the Virginia"The Carpenters framed a pretty Pynnace

        of about some 30 tonne, which they called

        the Virginia, the chief shipwright being

        Digby of London" (William Strachey, The

        Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia,

        1612).

 


                                                                                                                                        

 

Reconstruction of the Virginia by Ernest
Bevilacqua (1998). Courtesy of Maine's
First Ship.

 

 

 

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