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This Week, Some History of the Pilgrims!

The Mayflower

The Mayflower was used primarily as a cargo ship, involved in active trade of goods (often wine) between England and other European countries,principally France, but also Norway, Germany, and Spain.

Between 1609 and 1622, it was based in Rotherhithe, London and mastered by Christopher Jones, who would command the ship on the famous transatlantic voyage. After the famous voyage of the Mayflower, the ship returned to England, believed to be dismantled for scrap lumber in Rotherhithe in 1623, only a year after Jones’s death in March 1622.

Details of the ship’s dimensions are unknown; but estimates based on its load weight and the typical size of 180-ton merchant ships of its day suggest an estimated length of 90–110 feet and a width of about 25 feet.

The ship probably had a crew of twenty-five to thirty,along with other hired personnel; however, only the names of five are known, including William Bradford, who penned the only account of the Mayflower voyage. He wrote that John Alden

“was hired for a cooper [barrel-maker], at South-Hampton, where the ship victuled; and being a hopefull yong man, was much desired, but left to his owne liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed, and maryed here.”

Mayflower II is moored to this day at State Pier in Plymouth, and is open to visitors.

The Mayflower II is a full-size replica of the original Mayflower.

The ship is open as a museum about the Pilgrims’ historic voyage from Plymouth, England, and is considered a faithful replica of the original Mayflower. It is officially a part of Plimoth Plantation.

After World War II, an effort began to reenact the voyage of the Mayflower. With cooperation between Project Mayflower and Plimoth Plantation, an accurate replica of the original (designed by naval architect William A. Baker) was launched September 22, 1956 from Devon, England, and set sail in the spring of 1957. Captained by Alan Villiers, the voyage ended in Plymouth Harbor after 55 days on June 13, 1957 to great acclaim.

More tomorrow!

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Mike