Vessel – Page 11 – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

Eagle, USS (brig)

A ship in the United States Navy on Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. The British captured her in 1813, only to lose her back to the Americans at the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1814.

Discovery

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

Susan Constant

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

Godspeed

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

Essex, USS

United State Frigate active in the conflict with Barbary States and the War of 1812

Duke William

British cutter lost in 1768, presumed foundered in the English Channel.

Armed Virginia Sloop

Unnamed vessel representative of the mid-18th century American privateers

John Smith’s Barge

Replica of a shallop, like that used by Captain John Smith to make the first detailed European exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. Part of the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.

Claud W. Somers is a skipjack that was used for oyster dredging in Virginia and Maryland waters and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Register of Historic Places. It is one of the few skipjacks remaining in operational condition on Chesapeake Bay. Commissioned by Edward Thomas Somers, she was built in 1911 by Tom Young at Young’s Creek near the settlement known as Clam, Virginia, just north of Onancock and named after Edward’s son. After a working career of at least 60 years, she was eventually donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.

Elva C

A buy boat built in 1922 by Gilbert S. White in Westland, VA. She was built for Capt. Lee Abbot of Foxwells, who named her after his daughter and used her for pound net fishing and freight until 1955. She had two more owners before being donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.