The Mayflower final post

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The Mayflower final post

I have done a couple other posts on the Mayflower previously which you can see at the links below if interested
The Mayflower
Ropes in Mono

and this is my final post of shots taken that day when we heard it pulled into and berthed at New Bedford Harbour to be safe during a big storm that was approaching

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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.

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I think the things that caught my eye the most when viewing it was the rope work and the crows nest, I think that's what they call those things up the mast but feel free to correct me if I am wrong I am no expert on sailing or anything nautical for that matter lOL

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