North Carolina south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was undergoing full-scale English settlement. During the same period, the English monarch Charles II gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I (Latin: "Carolus"). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. Except for the Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony
QSMV Dominion Monarch and reached The Downs on 1 April. The ship left Britain again on 28 April 1940. In wartime merchant and naval ships were blacked out, including their navigation lights. In May "Dominion Monarch" collided with a coaster that was part of a convoy in the English Channel. Damage seems to have been slight, as she continued "via" Cape Town to Australia, calling at Fremantle, Adelaide and Melbourne before reaching Sydney on 6 June. On her return voyage "Dominion Monarch" embarked 100 Australian soldiers in Sydney and brought them "via" Melbourne, Cape Town and Freetown to Liverpool in England, where she