The Expedition Ship

The enormous vessel — "a giant ship made for the queen" — carrying the reclamation
expedition from Port Quaybay to Rivalon in Orathos. Sails and an
engine; famously (and demonstrably) both fireproof and waterproof. Crossing time:
21 days nominal, 10–40 depending on winds. It runs the route every ~40 days.
The name is settled: she is the Crown's Wake. A written Varian Navy record titled "The Crown's Wake" confirms what Johan's notes, Sir Danica's "the Crownswake" and the GM's "10,000 soldiers coming off the Crown's Wake" had all been circling. The table still mostly just calls her the expedition ship.

The Crown's Wake — Varian Navy record

An extremely large and lavishly crafted galleon in the arsenal of the Varian Navy, and — the record's most politically loaded line — created as a gift from Varia to Orathos. She serves as the flagship escorting people and resources to the war effort. She is not a hired transport: she is a nation's coronation present to a country that does not yet have its throne back, which is why the vessel that carried the reclamation is also "a giant ship made for the queen."

• Launched: the 17th of Midsummer, 1395 — the year of the reclamation pact, and under a year before the party sailed on her (see The Calendar)
• Class: galleon · Masts: 3 · Floors: 4 · Speed: 8 knots
• Length: 500 ft overall (475 ft at mid-deck, 440 ft at the base) · Width: 150 ft · Sail height: 250 ft
• Crew: 800 · Cargo: 24,000 tonnes · Firepower: 32 cannons

(Two things the record does not square with the party's experience: it describes a pure sail galleon where the party found sails and an engine, and its 800 crew is a fraction of the 10,000 soldiers said to have come off her at Southport — crew and passengers are counted separately, presumably. Both noted, neither resolved.)

Layout so far:

• Top deck — crew, rigging, the seasick; the war planners' area (Veilwood folk,
  two Atollians, the Mage's Society, extra Varians, and the decoy Queen of Varia —
  no Firebrands, no "snow people").
• Middle deck — galley/refreshments (best food early in the voyage), free-for-all
  hammocks and bunks, cannon stations; card games on a cow-skin rug; Lash's
  Blacksmithing Emporium and Tilda's cart in the defensible corner.
• Lower decks / cargo hold — Firebrand territory; treasure, crates, and the
  guarded hatch to the Holy Chambers of the Flame Queen statue: a 20×15×20 ft
  burning half-angel half-dragon statue for making "super soldiers" (entry: the
  Blessed, plus up to 6 idiots; features a bone pit).

Session 5

• Boarded and departed; the party met its recurring cast: Pam, Ugo,
  Figueroa, Tilda, the chef (wants Kain cooking all 21 days), the old
  airship pilot hunting a cabin boy he's never looked at, the kissing sailors, and a
  cucumber-loving ship's cat.
• An animated table with hands roams the deck cargo (two groin injuries so far).
• Brebo Goldfang, Daewynn and the parallel adventuring group are aboard;
  Laila said she'd stow away but hasn't been spotted.

Session 6

• Lower decks fleshed out: a working ship's forge aft of the great pillar (its
  deaf old keeper lent Lash the smelter she promptly relocated);
  Gravis's coffins beside a dark elf's cages of spirits caught at sea; a
  piano-composer writing down "the sickest tunes"; a darkened map corner claimed by
  Sir Conolith; and Jugs's drug still under the stairs — which now employs
  half the party.
• Laila is confirmed aboard, hiding in the dark corner until landfall —
  spectral ghost assassins occasionally burst straight through the hull hunting her.
• The Holy Chambers run "showings" of the fire ceremony roughly every 8 hours;
  consolation lozenges are available at the door.
• The GM dated the voyage "the 3rd of mid-spring on your Crown's Wake journey" —
  possibly the ship's name at last.

Session 7

• The whole 25-day crossing rendered as one session (the GM abandoned the
  timeline). The Holy Chambers shown in full: ~1,000 chanting Firebrands, 50–100
  pews, conductor-priests, a humanoid-heavy bone pit, and the blue-flame statue that
  consumed Kain and birthed Draak.
• New shipboard fixtures: a Flame Queen ship-school running 8 AM–8 PM for the whole
  voyage (teaching the church's "newborns" Orathi basics); the galley's one-way soup
  line (anti-scurvy lemon-cube stew); and the dark-elf ghost-catchers' cage operation
  detailed (silver-lined cages dragged along the hull to net the channel's shipwreck
  spirits).
• There is no real top deck map layer — "windy and cold," and passengers are asked
  to keep off it while the crew sails. Laila is still hiding aboard (now with skeleton
  allies); a hidden VIP cabin holds Vana Vermillion but is never reached on-screen this session.

Session 8

• The crossing is over: 25 days at sea (winds added 4–5 days), docking at
  Southport in Fort Foothold. Sir Danica pointed at "the Crownswake" and
  the GM spoke of "10,000 soldiers coming off the Crown's Wake" — strong evidence
  that is the ship's name.
• The unrecorded tail of the voyage left marks: a hidden VIP cabin where the
  party found Uva Blackheart and the princess Vana Vermillion (and got the "fat man"
  who let them in punished); Draak was "born on the boat," went to ship school
  with Magra, and guarded Jugs's door; Kain did not walk off the ship.
• Queen Ysolde gave her landing speech from its rear platform, and the ship —
  being sprayed down for the return run — sails on to Gwyndinas with her aboard.