Build Methods: Scratch

Virginia was commissioned by the Virginia Pilots Association and designed by naval engineers Cox and Stevens. The designers were instructed to model the vessel after the America’s Cup competitors of the day. She was built by A.C. Brown & Son of Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, and was completed in 1916.

Susan Constant, captained by Christopher Newport, was the largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company (the others being Discovery and Godspeed) on the 1606 – 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia.

Confederate gunboat, built in New York City by the renowned William H. Webb as the civilian steamer Yorktown.

1850’s American brigantine

First Union ironclad of the American Civil War.  Fought famous battle with the first Confederate ironclad ‘Virginia’ here in Hampton Roads – the first battle between two iron ships.

First Union ironclad of the American Civil War.  Fought famous battle with the first Confederate ironclad ‘Virginia’ here in Hampton Roads – the first battle between two iron ships.

This is the yacht that won the race which came to be known as the “America’s Cup”

Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge built in Hampton, Virginia, 1916.

Botters were fishing boats designed to sail the shallow Dutch waters.