Seaflower (ship)

[6][7][additional citation(s) needed] Seaflower (or Seaflour[8]) was 140 tons, likely a fluyt, operating out of London in 1620,[9] and frequented Bermuda (then known as the Somers Isles) and Virginia Colony.

In 1629, privateer and Captain Daniel Elfrith (aboard the Robert) scouted the archipelago of "Santa Calatina" for riches and as a staging point for Spanish ship plundering.

[18] In c. February 1631, 100 men and boys (mostly Puritans recruited from Essex, England) boarded the Seaflower, sailing from Deptford to Providence Island.

[22] Later, the Seaflower returned to Providence Island and was loaded again, this time with 1 tonne (1,000 kg) of "mechoacan potatoes" (Ipomoea purga), used as a medicine.

[32] A possible other ship operating with the name Seaflower, described as a Bermuda sloop that supported sea salt raking, was seized in 1701 in the Turks and Caicos Islands and impounded.

[33] Accompanied by another sea captain, Regnier Tongrelow, the Seaflower raided villages in Tabasco, Mexico, using a letter of marque from the Governor of Rhode Island (John Cranston).

This vessel was called Johanna but also named Sea Flower, was 18-feet wide and had a deck designed in "Rhode Island fashion" (rounded house).