''Speedwell'' could refer to the following ships:
Sailing ships
* , transported Pilgrims with ''Mayflower'' in 1620
* ''Speedwell'', a different vessel of the same name and size as the 1577 ship travelled to North America in 1603 under
Martin Pring
Martin Pring (1580–1626) was an English explorer from Bristol, England who in 1603 at the age of 23 was captain of an expedition to North America to assess commercial potential; he explored areas of present-day Maine, New Hampshire, and Cape Co ...
*''Speedwell'', in 1656 made a voyage from England to
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, carrying a party of
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil ...
including
Christopher Holder
Christopher Holder (1631–1688), was an early Quaker evangelist who was imprisoned and whipped, had an ear cut off, and was threatened with death for his religious activism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and in England. A native of Gloucestersh ...
and John Copeland. Arriving in
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the ...
under the Governorship of
John Endecott
John Endecott (also spelled Endicott; before 1600 – 15 March 1664/1665), regarded as one of the Fathers of New England, was the longest-serving governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He serv ...
, they were deported for religious reasons and obliged to return to Britain. In the following year another party, including six of the ''Speedwell'' company, returned via
Rhode Island
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aboard ''Woodhouse'': one of them became one of the
Boston martyrs
The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Barbadian Friend William Leddra, who were condemned to death and e ...
, judicially executed by Endecott.
* ''Speedwell'', built in 1663 by
Francis Baylie in Bristol, England
* ''Speedwell'',
privateer
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, captained by
George Shelvocke
George Shelvocke (baptised 1 April 167530 November 1742) was an English Royal Navy officer and later privateer who in 1726 wrote ''A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea'' based on his exploits. It includes an account of how his s ...
, wrecked 1720
* ''Speedwell'', in 1751 made a voyage from
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
to
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
, carrying a party of "Foreign Protestants" including
Johann Andreas Fultz. Captained by a Joseph Wilson, she left Rotterdam on 18 May 1751 with 229 passengers, and arrived in Halifax with 212, on either 10 or 21 July 1751.
* ''Speedwell'', in 1761 arrived in New London, Connecticut, captained by Timothy Miller. The ship left the region of Senegambia with 95 slaves aboard. According to the ''New London Gazette'', the ship landed in New London with 74 slaves surviving the voyage.
*''Speedwell'', merchant ship operated by Madras trading firm Jourdain, Sullivan & Desouza and captained by
Francis Light
Captain Francis Light ( – 21 October 1794) was a British explorer and the founder of the British colony of Penang (in modern-day Malaysia) and its capital city of George Town in 1786. Light and his lifelong partner, Martina Rozells, were th ...
, founder of Penang, in the 1760s
Naval and coastguard ships
* , the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
* , later
* , the former schooner ''Speedwell''
* ''Speedwell'' (WAGL-245), a ''Speedwell''-class
USCG seagoing buoy tender
Other users
* ''Speedwell'', a
Wey barge
''Perseverance IV'' is a preserved Wey barge, moored at Dapdune Wharf on the River Wey in Surrey, England. She was the final barge to leave that surviving main boatyard on the river. She did so in 1966 and is on the National Register of Hist ...
in the UK National Waterways Museum
See also
*
Speedwell (disambiguation)
References
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