Dawn Treader

The Dawn Treader was the ship in which King Caspian X of Narnia and his companions sailed to the Eastern end of the world as chronicled in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Origins
The ship was needed for a quest to find the Seven lost Lords, supporters of King Caspian IX which Miraz had sent to explore the Great Eastern Ocean in order to clear the way to seize his older brother's throne. When King Caspian X came to power, he swore an oath to personally search for the Lords for a 'year and a day'.

The Dawn Treader, was commissioned by Caspian X, but because shipbuilding had completely died out in Narnia during the Telmarine occupation, it was manufactured by the shipbuilders of Galma. It was a beautiful ship, almost a work of art. Despite this, it was only a shadow of the great Narnian ships that sailed in the Golden Age, such as the ship Splendor Hyaline. It was, however at the time of its construction, the grandest ship built in Narnia for many hundreds of years. Although the ship is driven by sail, she could also be rowed using great oars.

The Great Journey
The journey according to a Dryad to King Caspian X that the journey to search for the Seven Lords would take a year and a day, across the Great Eastern Ocean. The journey started at, of course, Cair Paravel and headed north-east to Galma. On the sovereign island of Galma the king had a tournament in which Caspian competed and won. The ruler of Galma offered his daughter to him as his prize, but Caspian kindly refused and so the voyage continued south-east to Terebinthia. On Terebinthia the Dawn Treader was attacked by pirates, in which they narrowly escaped and headed north-eastwards once more to the Seven Islands. On the Seven Islands they docked at the main island of Brenn and feasted with the natives on its capital Redhaven and some time after sailed far south-eastwards to the Lone Islands (the end of the known Great Eastern Ocean). On the way Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie and Eustace Scrubb fell into the Narnian world and were rescued by the crew of the Dawn Treader. On the Lone Islands the crew discover that they are been enslaved by a remanent of the Telmarine Age of Narnia in which the Calormenes are buying them off, who mainly came from Galma or Terebinthia. King Caspian, desgusted with this mistreatment, aimed to put it down, but they where captured first. Lord Bern found the son of his mentor captured and frees him. Together they eradecated the slavery on the Lone Islands and Caspian makes Bern the duke of the Lone Islands under him. With only one lord found, the Dawn Treader sails beyond the Lone Islands, and the known world.

Characteristics
The castle of the prow of the Dawn Treader was shaped like the head of a dragon. A person could keep watch from its mouth. Reepicheep liked to sit in the dragonhead and sing. The stern was a dragon tail and nearby was the rudder. In the center beneath the hatchway, there was a place where, when it was necesary, and when the wind wasn't blowing, oars where placed in both sides with benches so the rowers could sit while rowing and on the middle their was something like a long pit where the food and drinks were and on the roof of that place, were hams, meat and onions as well as hammocks for the sailors.

Damage
The Dawn Treader lost its mast during the storm. They made it to Dragon Island by using the jury-mast, which is the bowsprit set upright and lashed to the stump of the old mast. On the island, the crew felled a tree and lopped it into a new mast.

The Sea Serpent attacked the ship after leaving Dragon Island. The crew barely managed to get away by pushing the ship out of the loop the serpent formed with its body, but not before it snapped off the gilded Dragon's Tail. It was repaired magically by Coriakin, the magician in the Land of the Duffers.