[ship] Godspeed, under Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, was one of the three ships (along with the Susan Constant and the Discovery) on the 1606-1607 voyage to the New World for the English Virginia Company of London. The journey resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia. ==History== All 39 passengers and 13 sailors sh... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_(ship)
God'speed` noun Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, ' God speed you.' [ Written also as two separate words.] « Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed .» 2 John 10. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/41