Mayflower 20"

Item  #  317084

Mayflower 20"
 
  • 20" high x 4" W x 18" long  (1:66 scale).  2 Lbs.
  • This Mayflower tall ship requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
  • Our Mayflower model ship is made with plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
  • The Mayflower Pilgrims ship is built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, apamate, birch and rosewood.
  • The accurate model rests perfectly on a scale wood base.
  • To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
 
The Mayflower was the famous ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from Southampton, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts (which would become the capital of Plymouth Colony), in 1620.

The vessel left England on September 6, and after a grueling 66-day journey marked by disease, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod (Provincetown Harbor) on November 11 (dates in Old Style, Julian Calendar; according to the New Style Gregorian Calendar, the corresponding dates are September 16 and November 21). The Mayflower originally was destined for the mouth of the Hudson River, near present-day New York City, at the northern edge of England's Virginia colony, which itself was established with the 1607 Jamestown Settlement. However, the Mayflower went off course as the winter approached, and remained in Cape Cod Bay (mapped in 1602 by Gosnold).

On March 21, 1621, all surviving passengers, who had inhabited the ship during the winter, moved ashore at Plymouth, and on April 5, the Mayflower, a privately commissioned vessel, returned to England.

In 1623, a year after the death of captain Christopher Jones, the Mayflower was most likely dismantled for scrap lumber in Rotherhithe, London.

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 Mayflower 20" $99.95
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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