Get Pilgrim Fathers Ship Mayflower Images. Jones' first voyage on the mayflower was to norway in 1609 where the ship transported fish, lumber and tar. With these the ship was greatly shaken, and her upper decks made very leaky.
Almost 400 years ago, 100 colonists set off from the shores of england, bound for the new world. Model of mayflower ship at pilgrim hall, plymouth, mass, circa 1905. Jones' first voyage on the mayflower was to norway in 1609 where the ship transported fish, lumber and tar.
In many of these storms on november 9th, 1620, the 'mayflower' sighted what is now cape cod.
The rising number of mayflower pilgrim descendants is reported in this 1909 newspaper article. The pilgrim fathers is the common name for a group of english separatists who fled an environment of religious intolerance in protestant england during the reign of james i to establish the second english colony in the new world. In 1620 a group of religiously separatists chartered a ship called 'mayflower'. A small diversion, on a subject which interests me, because we are based in southampton england, where of course the mayflower sailed from originally.