Ship. In 1663 King Charles II of England rewarded eight of his supporters with a grant for a large tract of land in North America. Lying between thirty-one and thirty-six degrees of latitude, the Province of Carolina stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
In August 1669 the Lords Proprietors\u2019 fleet\u2013the Carolina, <\/em>the Port Royal, <\/em>and the Albemarle<\/em>\u2013carrying the first settlers for Carolina was ready to sail. The fleet was commanded by Joseph West, who was later appointed governor of the colony. The Carolina, <\/em>the largest of the three ships, was a two-hundred-ton frigate that carried ninety-three passengers. A typical frigate of the era was a three-masted vessel that was smaller and faster than many ships of the age.<\/p>\n En route to Barbados, the fleet landed in Ireland, where several colonists left the expedition. After forty days the ships reached Barbados, where a storm destroyed the Albemarle. <\/em>After acquiring the sloop The Three Brothers, <\/em>the fleet sailed to Nevis. Abandoning the Port Royal <\/em>there, the Carolina <\/em>and The Three Brothers <\/em>continued to Bermuda. A storm drove The Three Brothers <\/em>toward Virginia. Undeterred, the expedition acquired another sloop in Bermuda and eventually reached South Carolina in April 1670. Settlers on the Carolina <\/em>first explored Port Royal, their intended settlement site, but chose instead to settle up the Ashley River. In May 1670 the settlers sent the Carolina <\/em>to Virginia for supplies and to Barbados for sixty-four additional settlers. Of the three ships that left England to found the new colony, only the Carolina <\/em>had successfully reached what would become South Carolina.<\/p>\n Waring, Joseph I. The First Voyage and Settlement at Charles Town, 1670\u20131680. <\/em>Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ship. In 1663 King Charles II of England rewarded eight of his supporters with a grant for a large tract of land in North America. Lying between thirty-one and thirty-six degrees of latitude, the Province of Carolina stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. In August 1669 the Lords Proprietors\u2019 fleet\u2013the Carolina, the Port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","class_list":["post-3024","entry","type-entry","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ecms-a-z","ecms-c","ecms-colonial-period-1670-1764","ecms-encyclopedia","ecms-lowcountry","ecms-pre-colonial-south-carolina-before-1670","ecms-transportation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n