The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's pr
The original fleet, as commemorated on the Virginia State Quarter
Statue of Christopher Newport at the university bearing his name
Partial list of passengers by Captain John Smith 1624
Depiction of Sea Venture in a tropical storm in the Atlantic, July, 1609. The entire flotilla was scattered.
The Virginia Company of London was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N.
Original seal of the London Company of Virginia
Jamestown settler dead in the swamp. Painting by Sydney King of the US National Park Service.