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ARK (1633)
Ship of the Maryland Settlers. In November 1633, the Ark, a merchant ship of 360 tons, Richard Orchard, Master and her consort, the "Dove", left Gravesend, London, with 200 colonists under the leadership of Leonard Calvert. He was the second son of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, a Yorkshire landowner and a Catholic. The last port of call in England being Cowes on the Isle of Wight. They left Cowes on 22nd November 1633 and arrived at Point Comfort in Virginia on 24th February 1634. On 27th they disembarked on a promontory between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay at what is now St. Mary's, Maryland, but then was the site of an Indian village and established a settlement there.
The colony of Maryland lies between the Potomac River and the 40th parallel. Charles I had granted the territorial rights for this tract of land to Cecilius Calvert, the brother of George in 1632. Cecilius appointed George as both leader of the expedition and the governorship of Maryland.

Log Book November 1971
Encyclopedia of Exploration Vol. 1, 2003 by Ray Howgego, ISBN 1-875567-36-4.

(United States of America, 1934, 3c, 735
Marshall Islands, 2008, 41c, 2132).

Of this two ships the ARK and DOVE on this stamp, they are as ceiling decoration shown on the ceiling of Hook House in Wiltshire, in the sitting room of Lady Anne’s the wife of Cecil Calvert who organized this expedition. Portraits of early expedition vessels to North America does not exist in England, this two vessels are the only known contemporary representations of any of the many ships which brought the original settlers to the British North American colonies.
The ARK was built as a cargo vessel around 1630 with a tonnage of 400 tons burthen, the dimensions were around 40.23 x 9.75 x 4.26m, with a draught of 4.50m.
Three mast, ship rigged.
Armament is unknown but probably 20 – 25 guns.
Crew circa 40.
1633 Was she chartered by Baron Cecilius Calvert for a voyage to North America to establish a new colony there.

Ark and Dove
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