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John Cabot's Matthew

Over 500 years ago John Cabot and his crew set sail for Asia aboard the original Matthew hoping to trade goods and commodities with the people who lived there.

However, he finally arrived on the coast of Newfoundland and therefore was the original discoverer of America, not Christopher Columbus as most people are led to believe.

There is plenty of history wrapped up in her timbers. Please look at the other sections which will present some of the facts and stories surrounding the ship, details of John Cabot and his original voyage, the historical circumstances of the trip and what life was like on the original Matthew.