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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mayflower (ship)
The Mayflower was the ship which transported the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth, England to "North Virginia" (in what was later to become the United States of America) in 1620, leaving Plymouth on September 6 and dropping anchor near Cape Cod on November 21.
The Mayflower is the emblem of the English football club Plymouth Argyle F.C., who are known by the nickname of "The Pilgrims".
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the ship that brought a small group of English colonists, popularly known as the "Pilgrims," to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
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 Mayflower Ship
Mayflower as being "broad of beam, short in the waist, low between decks and not tight in her upper works," She was, in other words, what seamen know as a "wet" ship, and being heavily loaded as "low in the water."
The ship lay dormant for about two years, at which point it was appraised for probate, and its value was determined to be £128-08-04, an extremely low value (had it been in sailing condition, £700 could be expected).
Ships in that condition were more valuable as wood (which was in shortage in England at the time), so the Mayflower was most likely broken apart and sold as scrap.
www.mayflowerfamilies.com /Mayflower%20Ship/mayflower_ship_facts.htm   (489 words)

  
  Mayflower II Background Information
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the ship that brought a small group of English colonists, popularly known as the "Pilgrims," to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
Construction of Mayflower II was undertaken at Upham shipyard in Brixham, Devonshire.
Mayflower II was launched on a rainy September 22, 1956.
www.plimoth.org /press/mayflowerBG.php   (1707 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Mayflower (ship)
The Mayflower was, most famously, the ship which transported the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth, England to North Virginia in what was later to become the United States of America in 1620.
On April 5, 1621 the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
The Mayflower is, incidentally, the emblem of the English football club Plymouth Argyle F.C., who are known by the nickname of "The Pilgrims".
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 Mayflower History
This Mayflower is described as being about two hundred tons, and when she was riding at anchor in Boston Harbor on October 6, 1652, Webber sold one sixteenth of her "for good and valuable considerations" to one John Pinchon of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Ship designs of the period, drawn with a compass and a straight edge and nothing else, emphasized Baker's principle that a ship should have "a cod's head and a mackerel's tail", meaning a full bow and a fined-down stern.
The-ship carried the typical sails of the time: on the mainmast the great mainsail and main topsail, on the foremast the foresail and foretop, and on the mizzen mast the sprit sail and lateen mizzen.
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 About MOL
Mayflower Ocean Lines will be able to offer unique itineraries, financial incentives and benefits currently not available on foreign-flagged cruise ships (99% of the cruise industry).
Mayflower Ocean Lines intends to take an active role in the revival of the US-flag cruise industry and expects to benefit from government support aimed at this very industry.
Mayflower Ocean Lines has conducted a lengthy and detailed study of the cruise, leisure, hospitality and business meeting industries as the basis for its financial and operational model.
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 MayflowerHistory.com
But the Mayflower's voyage took far longer than expected, due to the fact that Pawling's servant had spent a month more than planned to load the ship in Norway; and also due to the fact the Mayflower encountered a severe North Sea storm on the trip home that tossed it at sea for several weeks.
The 1609 adventures of the Mayflower are, in fact, the earliest conclusive records relating to the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America.
One deposition in the case stated that Jones had been master of the ship for a couple years prior to the 1609 sailing, so he apparently came into possession of the ship around 1607; he was a quarter-owner of the ship, the other owners at the time being John Moore, Robert Childe, and Thomas Short.
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 Annie's Mayflower Day Page
One infant was born on the ship as it lay anchored at Cape Cod.
In 1957 a replica of the ship--named Mayflower II --sailed from Plymouth, England, to Massachusetts in an attempt to duplicate the original trip.
Mayflower was the ship that carried the first Pilgrims to America, in 1620.
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 America's Hometown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The passengers came to be known as the “Pilgrims.” The ship, Mayflower, returned to England in April of 1621; a few years later she disappeared from the records.
Built between 1955 and 1957, Mayflower II is a reproduction of a late 16th-century English merchant ship of the same size as the original Mayflower.
Ship’s Bell - the bell was rung to mark the time of the watch, with one to eight strikes at each half-hour of the four hours.
www.usathanksgiving.com /2006b/info/mayflower.html   (630 words)

  
 Mayflower (vessel) - MSN Encarta
Mayflower (vessel), vessel in which the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in 1620.
The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists had been authorized to settle.
The patent for their settlement in the New World, issued by the London Company, was no longer binding, and some among the passengers desired total independence from their shipmates.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573892/Mayflower_(vessel).html   (366 words)

  
 Mayflower, ship. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
ship that in 1620 brought the Pilgrims from England to New England.
Before landing, an agreement for the temporary government of the colony by the will of the majority was drawn up in the famous Mayflower Compact.
It is known that she was a wineship, of 180 tons burden, and presumed that she was of a type commonly used in that period.
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 Mayflower Model Ships: Medium Ships & other model boats, model yachts and sailboats from Model Ships, suppliers of high ...
Although this little ship brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock in 1620 is one of the most celebrated vessels in U.S. history, facts concerning her origin and ending are obscure.
This ship plied the seas chiefly between England and the French Biscay ports of La Rochelle and Bordeaux.
Mayflower’s charter was eventually arranged through the Merchant adventurers (including the Virginia Company), who could grant landrights in the America's for the Separatists who wanted to settle in the New World.
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MAYFLOWER remained in American waters until 5 April 1621 and then returned to England on 6 May. Later in the year she was again trading with France and brought back salt from Rochelle in the fall.
In 162o, a Thomas Weston and John Carver hired the Mayflower and the Speedwell to undertake the voyage to plant a colony in Northern Virginia.
The last record of the ship was an assessment of her value in 1624.
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 Mayflower - The Ship
The ship 'Mayflower' has played a very significant role in the history of Thanksgiving, because it was the historic ship that took the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
And the 'Mayflower' was a small ship crowded with men, women and children besides the sailors on board.
The ships in the 'in ruins' condition were considered more valuable as wood, which was in shortage in England at the time.
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 Mayflower
The second Mayflower, a luxurious steam yacht built in 1896 by J. and G. Thompson, Clyde Bank, Scotland, was purchased by the Navy from the estate of Ogden Goelet and commissioned at New York Navy Yard 24 March 1898, Comdr.
Mayflower decommissioned at New York 1 November 1904 for conversion to a presidential yacht.
Decommissioned 1 July 1946, Mayflower was sold at Baltimore to Frank M. Shaw 8 January 1947 for use in the Arctic as a scaler.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m7/mayflower-ii.htm   (733 words)

  
 Ship History of May Flower, mayflower ship history - historic ships, wooden ship models, wood ships, scale ships, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This proved to be a lengthy operation as "Mayflower" was a popular ship's name; but, he eventually reduced the number to six, and finally to one, the Mayflower of Harwich, whose master was Christopher Jones.
Finding of the Mayflower and The Last of the Mayflower (1920) demonstrates in a series of wild syllogisms that the Mayflower's bones came to their final resting place as the roof timbers on an old barn at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, which is preserved by the Society of Friends." (Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation, Morison ed., 1984, p.
Plimoth Plantation's Mayflower II is a re-creation of the famous ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
www.exp-china.com /shiphistory/ship_may_flower_history.htm   (602 words)

  
 NEWS
Mayflower Ocean Lines has conducted a lengthy and detailed study of the cruise, hospitality and business meetings industries as the basis for its financial and operational models.
Mayflower Ocean Lines will negotiate a ship-construction contract with an US-based shipyard in order to ensure the ship meets all specifications, configuration and design outlines required for its service.
The ship’s propulsion system will incorporate the Azipod system, thus allowing the ship a greater degree of maneuverability while reducing the overall space requirements.
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 A cut-away plan and description of The Mayflower ship, its decks, superstructure and compartments.
The Ship's Bell is rung to mark the time of the watch, with one to eight strokes at each half-hour of the four hours.
The Whipstaff, the ship's helm, located on the main deck, is a long lever used to move the tiller below, which moves the rudder to steer the ship.
Steerage is the cabin of the ship's officers.
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 ship.html
The Mayflower stayed in America that winter, and its crew suffered the effects of the first winter just as the Pilgrims did, with almost half dying.
The ship was not in very good condition, being called "in ruinis" in a 1624 High Court of Admiralty record (HCA 3/30, folio 227) written in Latin.
Mayflower was a very common ship name, and in fact numerous other ships called the Mayflower made trips to New England; but none of them were the same ship that brought the Pilgrims to America.
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 Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers
The 'Mayflower' was employed bringing wine from the Mediterranean to England and outward bound she carried furs and bales of cloth to France.
While still aboard the ‘Mayflower’, on November 21, 1620, the Pilgrims’ 41 adult male passengers had signed the 'Mayflower Compact' (see left stamp 'signing of the compact'), an agreement that bound the signers to majority rule government in the Pilgrim colony, pending receipt of a royal charter.
During 1955-56, a replica of the ‘Mayflower’ was built at Brixham, U.K. Designed by naval historian W.A. Baker, her specs are: hull length 105 ft, beam 25 ft, depth 12 ft, displacement 365 tons, six sails with 470 square meters surface area.
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 Mayflower II, Plymouth, Massachusetts
This replica of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower helps you understand how much the Pilgrims must have suffered on their voyage to the New World.
Mayflower II, an exhibit of Plimoth Plantation, is only a few steps north of Plymouth Rock.(which is three miles north of Plimoth Plantation itself).
The admission fee for the Mayflower II includes free parking, a visit to the ship, an audiovisual show at the theater, and indoor exhibits on Puritanism and early Pilgrim life.
www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /go/ma/southshore/plymouth/sights/mayflower.html   (328 words)

  
 MAYFLOWER,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Mayflower Compact was the first constitution written in America.
The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists--half religious.
On December 18, 1620, passengers on the British ship Mayflower come ashore at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to begin their new settlement, Plymouth.
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 Mayflower, ship — FactMonster.com
took on some of the smaller ship's passengers and supplies.
After a two-month voyage the ship sighted land (Cape Cod) on Nov. 19.
Some time was spent in selecting a suitable place for the colony, and on Dec. 26 the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
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 The Journey from Mayflower steps to Cape Cod
After the Mayflower had arrived and was anchored in Provincetown Harbour off the tip of Cape Cod, Susanna White gave birth to a son, which she named Peregrine (which means "one who has made a journey").
And as for the decks and upper works they would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch, yet there would otherwise be no great danger, if they did not overpress her with sails.
Only one other contemporary account of the Mayflower's voyage exists, and though it was not written by a Mayflower passenger, it was written in 1624 by Captain John Smith (the same one rescued by Pocahontas), based on second hand information he had heard, or read in letters sent back to England.
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 PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE
The English ship the Mayflower carried the Separatist Puritans, later known as pilgrims, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.
The ship was made ready at Southampton with a passenger list that included English Separatists, hired help (among them Myles Standish, a professional soldier, and John Alden, a cooper), and other colonists who were to be taken along at the insistence of the London businessmen who were helping to finance the expedition.
Although the Mayflower's captain and part-owner, Christopher Jones, had threatened to leave the Pilgrims unless they quickly found a place to land, the ship remained at Plymouth during the first terrible winter of 1620-21, when half of the colonists died.
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 Genealogy Research Guide - Mayflower Records - UMass Amherst Libraries
Roser, Susan E. Mayflower births and deaths: from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Notes the town of residence, relationship to a Mayflower passenger, ship name, year the will was signed, name of the spouse or closest relative, and sources of information for more than 725 men and 75 women, all Plymouth Colony residents who left probate records from 1633 to 1691.
Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970; in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620.
www.library.umass.edu /subject/genealogy/mayflower.html   (1350 words)

  
 Guardian | Mayflower wind ship sold to managers
The 14,000 tonne ship owned by collapsed engineering group Mayflower has been sold to the vessel's designer at a knockdown price as the company seeks cash to keep its businesses going.
Mayflower collapsed this month after an accounting fl hole was uncovered and banks withdrew their support for the firm.
Mayflower needs the money to keep afloat TransBus, which is the other substantial Mayflower division.
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 Mayflower II in The Boston Insider: Travel Tips on Getting the Most Out of Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Summary: the Mayflower II is a replica of the famous ship that brought the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean more than 375 years ago.
The Mayflower II is an English-built full-scale replica of the vessel that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620.
The ship’s Master (or captain) and his officers had cabins high in the stern of the vessel, while the common seamen were housed in the Forecastle near the bow, with the boatswain (master of discipline) and cook.
www.theinsider.com /Boston/attractions/2mayflower.htm   (749 words)

  
 The Pilgrim John Howland Society - Article: Warwick Charlton, Mayflower II Visionary
Ship architect William A. Baker had already done extensive research on 17th century ships and already had a plan drawn.
During the voyage, Mayflower II was greeted by many vessels including the Italian cruisers San Giorgio and San Marco, four U.S. destroyers led by the USS Ault and the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal.
As the ship neared her destination, she was saluted by hordes of aircraft, blimps and private planes.
www.pilgrimjohnhowlandsociety.org /article_warwick_charlton_mayflowerii_visionary.shtml   (1914 words)

  
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The Mayflower passengers consisted of fifty men, nineteen women, three of whom were pregnant, fourteen young adults, and nineteen children, a total of 102.
One baby was born on the voyage across the Atlantic (Oceanus Hopkins), one after the ship’s arrival in Cape Cod Harbor (Peregrine White), and on 22 December 1620, Mary (Norris) Allerton had a still born son while the Mayflower was anchored in Plymouth Harbor.
However, those unable to board the ship may enjoy a close up view of the ship from the dock, visit the dockside exhibit area, talk to modern crewmembers, and look at pictures of the interior of the ship.
www.lycos.com /info/mayflower--ship.html   (501 words)

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