The Mayflower

A few weeks back ( shows how far behind I am not only at being active here on hive but also on editing photos) our Daughter In Law let us know with a storm that was coming the May Flower had pulled into port here in New Bedford to be safe during the storm before continuing on to Plymouth where it is docked a lot of the time, so Lulu and I swung by and got a few shots of it.

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It was kind of a grey storm with the storm approaching but I got plenty of shots of it and will do a few posts, starting with this one with shot of the whole ship, We couldn't get on board of course not that Lulu did not try talking tot he crew and asking LOL, but one day we will visit it in Plymouth and do the tour

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It was the first time for us both to see the Maylower, and it was smaller than I thought it would be but still pretty impressive to see.

This is not the original Mayflower but a replica, the original Mayflower

What happened to the original Mayflower? No one knows for sure what happened to the original Mayflower. The last record of the ship was an assessment of her value in 1624. After that, she disappeared from maritime record

In September 1620, a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Normally, the Mayflower’s cargo was wine and dry goods, but on this trip the ship carried passengers: 102 of them, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists–they called themselves “Saints”–who hoped to establish a new church in the New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”

After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, the Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached America, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod on November 11, 1620.