The ark and the dove and the foundation of maryland

An artist's conception of the Dove showed the vessel with a two-masted rig, though square-rigged on the mainmast, which is now thought to be unlikely. Hammond Gibson, c. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Barre Publishing. Ark and Dove were the two ships that began the Maryland Colony. Ark was a ton capacity cargo ship hired by Cecil Calvert to transport about colonists and their equipment and supplies to Maryland.

Dove was a much smaller ton capacity cargo ship purchased by Cecil Calvert and investors so that the colonists would have their own ship to use once Ark had sailed for England. The two ships set sail from the Isle of Wight on 22 November Three days later, on 25 March, a storm arose in the channel and Dove was seen flying distress lanterns at her masthead before she disappeared into the storm.

Those aboard Ark assumed she had sunk in the storm. It was not until six weeks later that they discovered otherwise, when Dove arrived in Barbados and rejoined Ark. The two ships arrived at Old Point Comfort on 24 February , after a voyage of three months of which 66 days were spent at sea. Clements Island.

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They spent the rest of March exploring and negotiating with the Indians for a place to settle. At the end of May, Ark returned to England, leaving Dove behind to provide transportation for goods to be traded up and down the Atlantic seacoast. In the fall of , Dove was sent north to Boston to trade corn for salt cod and other commodities.