Monday, October 11, 2021

Mayflower II Ship and Fuller Shallop (Small Boat)




1620, Pilgrim leader William Bradford reading the Mayflower Compact onboard the Mayflower off the coast of what became known as Massachusetts.Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images

This is a list of those who signed the Mayflower Compact.  Those in yellow are direct ancestors of Glen Parker.  Five are great-grandfathers.  Three great-grandfathers are added at the bottom they came on the next ship.



This is a list of the Mayflower passengers listed on the National Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, 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.

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 DevonEngland during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton and Plimoth Plantation, an American museum. The work drew upon reconstructed ship blueprints held by the American museum, along with hand construction by English shipbuilders using traditional methods.[3] Mayflower II was sailed from PlymouthDevon on April 20, 1957, recreating the original voyage across the Atlantic Ocean,[3] under the command of Alan Villiers. According to the ship's log, Mayflower II arrived at Plymouth on June 22; it was towed up the East River into New York City on Monday, July 1, 1957, where Villiers and crew received a ticker-tape parade. The ship was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 2020.[4]

The ship was built at the Upham Shipyard in Brixham and financed by private donations in England and the Plimoth Plantation. It represented the alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States for collaboration during the Second World War.[3] The ship is considered a faithful generic reproduction within a few details (electric lights added and ladder replaced with a lower-deck staircase), with solid oak timbers, tarred hemp rigging, and hand-coloured maps. It is 106 ft (32 m) long by 25 ft (7.6 m) wide, 236 tons displacement, three masts (mainmast, foremast, mizzen), a bowsprit and 6 sails.




The Fuller shallop, a restored replica of the original shallop aboard the Mayflower, and now a complement to the restored Mayflower II.















 

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