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| TS0065W mayflower MODEL required over 350 hours to build MODEL INFO Plank on bulkhead construction a painstaking process - each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time Built with rare, high quality woods The model rests on a CUSTOM MADE BASE Hand stitched canvas sails. metal /wood carved anchors individualLY machined brass cannons ! Significant deck detail extensively detailed & authentic hand tied rigging To build the prototype ship, extensive research was undertaken using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans this same care and authenticity is extended to the model on offer here SCRATCH BUILT BY HAND HISTORY In August 1609, Andrew Pawling hired the Mayflower to carry cargo to Norway; and to bring home pine planks, barrels of tar and herrings. Pawlings was counting on his profit from this voyage to pay outstanding debts. Mayflower's voyage took longer than expected, encountering a severe North Sea storm on the trip home that tossed it at sea for several weeks. Master Christopher Jones, the ship's captain, had some of the cargo, and some of the ship's provisions, thrown overboard to lighten the load and save everyone's lives. Way off schedule, the ship arrived to find Pawling in jail for defaulting on his debts. The 1609 adventures of the Mayflower are, in fact, the earliest conclusive records relating to the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America. One deposition in the case stated that Jones had been master of the ship for a couple years prior to the 1609 sailing, so he apparently came into possession of the ship around 1607; he was a quarter-owner of the ship, the other owners at the time being John Moore, Robert Childe, and Thomas Short. Whether the ship was new at that time, or whether it had been previously owned, cannot be satisfactorily answered with the available records. A very reasonable hypothesis with some supporting evidence was published in 1922, and suggests the Mayflower had been previously owned by Robert Burton. From 1609 through '20, Mayflower was used as a cargo ship carrying English goods to France and Spain, almost always returning home fully laden with French good fro the return journey. It's primary ports of call were Bordeaux and La Rochelle, France. In 1613 and 1614, the Mayflower and Christopher Jones changed the usual wine trading routine temporarily, and made two voyages to Hamburg, Germany, bringing home cargos of various fabrics and cloth. In May 1620, the Mayflower returned from one of its usual voyages to La Rochelle, France, fully loaded with French wines. The ship was hired in London and sailed down to Southampton in July. Along with the ship Speedwell the two embarked on their first voyage attempt on August 5. The Speedwell was leaking too much, so the two ships put in to Dartmouth for repairs. The second voyage attempt was made August 22. The two ships made it 300 miles out into the Atlantic before the master of the Speedwell, William Reynolds, decided the ship was too leaky to continue. Both ships turned back, and put in to Plymouth . There, the decision was made to forget the Speedwell. About 20 people, including the Blossom, Ring and Cushman families, decided to quit from the voyage and go home. The remaining 102 passengers and goods were packed onto the Mayflower, and embarked from Plymouth, England to America on September 6. The Mayflower's crew sighted Cape Cod on November 9; they attempted to sail south to an area around the mouth of the Hudson's River, near modern-day Long Island, New York. They nearly shipwrecked to the south of the Cape narrowly escaping, the decision was made not to try that again--they would go back and explore Cape Cod. They anchored off Provincetown Harbor on November 11, and over the next month they put out several expeditions to survey Cape Cod and the vicinity. By mid-December, running out of both patience and provisions (including beer, the primary beverage since water was usually contaminated with parasites), the Pilgrims decided upon the area we now know as Plymouth Colony. They continued to live out of the Mayflower for several months, making trips to land to build storehouses and houses. Constructing homes and storehouses proved to be very slow going: many were sick and could not labor hard; bad weather frequently prevented much work from being done; and the few structures they did build occasionally succumbed to fire. By April, the weather started turning for the better, the people's healths began to recover, so on April 5, 1621, the Mayflower set sail home for England, arriving back on May 6, bringing letters and news of the successful establishment of Plymouth: but with a devastating 50% loss of lives, and with no profit (lumber, furs, fish) sent home as cargo. After returning home, the Mayflower was again employed in a trip to France, bringing home to London a cargo of salt. Shortly thereafter, her master and quarter-owner, Christopher Jones, fell sick. He would die in March 1623. By 1624, the Mayflower, which apparently had not been used since October 1621, was sitting in ruins in the river Thames. appraised for a lowly £128. Undoubtedly the ship was sold off as scrap lumber. the proprietor of premiumwoodcraft has visited the tavern where the last supper was held in plymouth- now a beefeater inn!! Also the steps down which the founding fathers descended into the mayflower in plymouth harbour. who could have predicted what would have followed from this humble little ship and her human flotsam and jetsamwould lead to a modern day superpower whose supremacy is threatened -longer term-only by rise the asian tiger economies |
