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The Mayflower II will return home to Plymouth from Mystic by way of the Cape Cod Canal. See where the ship is now with this online tracker. Mayflower II will travel through Cape Cod Canal soon.
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, celebrated for transporting the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. [3] The reproduction was built in Devon, England during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton and Plimoth Patuxet (at the time known as Plimoth Plantation), a living history museum.
Mayflower II is slated to be open to the public at her Plymouth berth starting at 9 a.m. on April 13. The travel schedule from Mystic to Plymouth is subject to change, depending on tide, weather ...
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
The best effort by local historians to place the actual site of the Mayflower finally casting off is roughly where a Victorian public house, the Admiral MacBride, now stands. [citation needed] Today, boat trips leave the Mayflower Steps for trips around the Plymouth Sound and up the River Tamar for sight of the 'Dockyard and Warships'.
The National Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, [1] commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims. Dedicated on August 1, 1889, it honors their ideals as later generally embraced by the United States. It is thought to be the world's largest solid granite monument. [2]
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. Edward Doty (c. 1599 – August 23, 1655) was a passenger on the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower to North America; he was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. [1]
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