Mayflower
About Mayflower
Mayflower was an English square-rigged merchant sailing ship, active from before 1609 until 1622. Her tonnage was 180+, and she was 110 feet long and 25 feet in the beam, with several decks. She was notable in that she transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.
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Two babies were born during the Mayflower voyage, and the one born at sea was named Oceanus.
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A robot Mayflower, the AI-piloted Mayflower Autonomous Ship built by IBM and ProMare, crossed from England to America crewless, but it took three goes, had to be towed in, and first hit land 400 miles from where the original landed.
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The 1950s replica Mayflower II carried no women, and its captain Alan Villiers said in 1957 there was no place aboard for glamour pusses.
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Of the just over 100 people on the Mayflower, more than 60 were Anglicans, the very group the Pilgrims were trying to escape.
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Mayflower passengers had remarkable names, including Oceanus and Wrestling Brewster.
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During a diversion, the replica Mayflower II went near the Bermuda Triangle and almost sank.
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