This article refers to the ship itself, the Dawn Treader. For the book by C. S. Lewis which features this ship, see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Dawn Treader was a Narnian ship, built by King Caspian X, in the Chronicles of Narnia. She was the first Narnian ship to be built since the Golden Age and was commissioned by King Caspian, so that he might sail beyond the Lone Islands and on to the unknown Eastern Ocean to seek the Seven Great Lords - friends of his father who had disappeared during the reign of Miraz as Lord Protector of Narnia after he had murdered King Caspian IX. Crew The ship is captained by Drinian, friend of Caspian X. Also on board are Rhince, the first mate, Rynelf, a loyal sailor, and Reepicheep, a mouse who had his severed tail restored by Aslan, moved by the loyalty of the other mice, and in remembrance of kindness shown by mice a over thousan