1. Christopher Newport is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Christopher Newport was in overall command of the other two ships on that initial voyage, in order of their size, the Godspeed and the Discovery.
Christopher Newport made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown; in 1609, he became Captain of the Virginia Company's new flagship, Sea Venture, which met a hurricane during the Third Supply mission and was shipwrecked on the archipelago of Bermuda.
Christopher Newport's father, named Christopher Newport, was a shipmaster who worked in the commercial shipping trade on the east coast of England.
Christopher Newport went to sea in 1580, and he quickly rose to the rank of a master mariner and dealt with trade going into London.
In 1590, Christopher Newport participated in an expedition to the Caribbean, which was financed and organised by famed London merchant John Watts.
On this voyage, Christopher Newport lost an arm during a fight to capture a Spanish galleon.
Christopher Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake on Drake's famous raid on Cadiz, Spain.
Christopher Newport then explored the Powhatan Flu up to the site of present-day Richmond, then a few weeks after arriving at Jamestown he was allowed to assume his seat on the council.
However, Christopher Newport did return twice from England with additional supplies in the following 18 months, leading what were termed the First and Second Supply missions.
Accordingly, Christopher Newport left again for England almost immediately to obtain more supplies for the colonists.
The need for another, ideally much larger, supply mission was conveyed to the leaders of the Virginia Company effectively when Christopher Newport returned to England.
Christopher Newport was apart of Jamestown governing, and made Jamestown progress.
On his last voyage to Jamestown in 1610, Christopher Newport brought John Rolfe.
In 1613, aboard the Expedition, Christopher Newport commanded the twelfth voyage of the company to the Far East.