Rendezvous of the John Smith Shallops

400th Anniversary Celebration

This public event, held August 25-26, 2007, was hosted by the Fishing Bay Yacht Club and the Deltaville Community Association to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the first English settlement in the New World and the epic voyage of exploration and discovery by Captain John Smith and his shallop crew to chart the Chesapeake Bay.

This celebration brought together three shallops built by the Deltaville Maritime Museum, the Reedville Fisherman's Museum and the John Smith Four Hundred Project/Sultana Projects, Chestertown, MD. In conjunction with National Geographic Magazine, these three institutions hosted interactive displays explaining their interpretation of the shallops that were constructed.