What was the name of the boat that Sir Walter Raleigh use to go to Virginia?

Answer 1

Raleigh never went to Virginia. He organized the first two Roanoke voyages and had a partial interest in the third voyage of 1587 but he did not accompany any of the trips. The flagship on the 1587 voyage was the LYON. There was also a flyboat and a pinnace but their names are unknown. The names of the ships on the 1584 voyage are unknown. The ships on the 1585 voyage included the ELIZABETH, TYGER, DOROTHY, LYON, ROEBUCK and two pinnaces. The Spanish prize ship SANTA MARIA DE VINCENTE was captured along the way. The vessels were ships, rather than boats. An easy way to remember the difference between a ship and a boat is that a boat may be stored on a ship, but not the reverse. A flyboat and a pinnace are large enough to sail on such a long voyage, but a ship is the larger vessel. In some cases boats were towed behind the ships.