Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project
September 9 - October 29, 2006
From September 9 through October 29, 2006, The Mariners'
Museum's International Small Craft Center will host the Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project, which is traveling to museums in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. This exhibition features a replica of Smith's 30-foot-long open boat, or "shallop," constructed at the Sultana Shipyard under the direction of master shipwright John Swain. In 1608, Smith and 14 crewmembers left a struggling Jamestown colony and embarked on a 1,700-mile voyage of exploration in a shallop on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This journey would redefine the European concept of the "New World." The Mariners' Museum is the only location on the Peninsula exhibiting the replica shallop before its epic voyage in 2007.
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