The barque rigged SUSAN CONSTANT in 1607, arrived on the shores of the James River in Virginia carrying English
settlers to what became known as Jamestown.
Built by English shipwrights in 1604, she measures 120 tons-burthen, 96 feet overall, 23 feet of beam and a draft
of 9 feet 6 inches. Her displacement tonnage is 295 long tons.
Re-created in Historic Jamestown shipyard; her keel was layed in December, 1989 and she was launched in December
1990. She was commissioned February, 1991 and has been in service plying the waters of Virginia and the Chesapeake
Bay, as a good will ambassador and a sail training vessel.