Discovery (1602 ship)

Discovery was a small English fly-boat of about 20 tons and 38 feet in length, launched before 1602 and operated by the English East India Company. She is best remembered as the smallest of the three ships, with Susan Constant and Godspeed, that carried the Virginia Company of London settlers to the New World in 1606 and 1607 and led to the founding of Jamestown. In 1602 George Weymouth sailed her into Hudson Strait while searching for the Northwest Passage, and in 1608 Captain John Smith used her to explore the Chesapeake Bay region. She later took part in six expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage; during the 1610 to 1611 voyage her crew mutinied and set her captain, Henry Hudson, adrift in a small boat. Replicas of Discovery can be seen at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia and at Westenhanger Castle in Kent.