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The Elizabeth II
At Roanoke Island Festival Park
Elizabeth II is a sixty-nine foot, square-rigged sailing ship built as the centerpiece of America's 400th Anniversary Celebration to represent one of the vessels used to transport Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists to the New World between 1584 and 1587. The ship is located across from the Manteo waterfront at Roanoke Island Festival Park. |
© Images Courtesy Roanoke Island Festival Park
Exhibits at the visitor center describe motives for early exploration, shipboard life and the lives of Native Americans encountered by Englishmen over 400 years ago. An automated slide show depicts the hardship and adventure of a sea voyage in the 16th century and serves as an orientation for guided tours of the Elizabeth II. |
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Living history interpreters re-create a day aboard the original Elizabeth as she rode at anchor off the Outer Banks in the summer of 1585 sending men and supplies ashore in small boats to establish a military settlement. A reconstructed camp in the forest nearby portrays the first days in this strange new land for these adventurers. After their return to England about ten months later a second group of settlers arrived in 1587 only to disappear from history in the unsolved mystery of "The Lost Colony".
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A working vessel, Elizabeth II is sailed to other ports along the Atlantic coast in the autumn and spring by a volunteer crew. On these voyages she may be accompanied by the Silver Chalice, a twenty-four foot representation of the ship's boats used to transport early colonists and their cargo across the shallow and treacherous waters surrounding Roanoke Island.
The Elizabeth II at Roanoke Island Festival Park is open year round. Admission charges are required for guided tours and the summer living history program. Exhibits are located adjacent to the Outer Banks History Center - a regional library featuring an important collection of manuscripts, photographs and other information about the Outer Banks and coastal North Carolina.
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© Images Courtesy Roanoke Island Festival Park
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The Elizabeth II
Roanoke Island Festival Park
One Festival Park
Manteo, NC 27954
(252) 475-1506 Events Line
(252) 475-1500 General Information
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