Which ship carries Lucy and Edmund in C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

The Dawn Treader is the ship that carries Lucy and Edmund in C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Their cousin Eustace Scrubb joins them when they are drawn into a painting and arrive in Narnia.

The ship is commanded by King Caspian X, who is searching for seven lords banished by his uncle Miraz. The voyage takes the travelers eastward across the sea, through a series of islands and supernatural dangers.

The Dawn Treader is both a vessel and the center of the novel’s structure: each stage of the voyage introduces a new moral or imaginative challenge. Readers sometimes confuse the ship’s name with the novel’s title, but the title uses the vessel’s name in the phrase “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”