Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard is working in partnership with Plimoth Plantation to restore Mayflower II. Mayflower II will move back to its berth at the Plimouth Plantation for the summer and then return to Mystic for an extended restoration in the Fall lasting into 2019.
Mayflower II is a replica of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to the New England in 1620. The replica was built in Devon, England and sailed to the United States in 1957 under the command of Alan Villiers. Also at Mystic Seaport is the full-rigged iron ship Joseph Conrad which Villiers sailed around the world in 1934-1936 with a crew of sail trainees.
A video of the reconstruction produced by the Seaport:
ANOTHER MAYFLOWER:
http://www.harwichmayflower.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-30596893
https://theshipsblog.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich_Mayflower_Project
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/video_gallery_project_to_recreate_the_mayflower_the_ship_that_put_america_on_the_map_1_3703535
Maybe it will be ‘win some, lose some?’
Thanks, David.