Mayflower

The Mayflower was the English merchant ship that carried 102 passengers, the group later called the Pilgrim Fathers among them, from Plymouth to Cape Cod in 1620, founding Plymouth Colony in New England. The 66-day Atlantic crossing and the Mayflower Compact signed aboard before landing are foundational events in the history of English settlement in North America. The original ship’s fate is unknown; the seagoing replica Mayflower II, built in 1956 and 1957, is preserved at Plymouth, Massachusetts.