Subject Type: Exploration/Research

Halve Maen (Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company ship that sailed into what is now New York in 1609. She was attempting to find a western passage to China.

Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.

Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.

Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.

San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot, 200 ton, galleon. The replica, part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, was completed in 2015.