Mayflower Sails 2020: 400 Years Since that Fateful Voyage

摘要

In the United States, our history is recent enough that we see few anniversaries of events past 250 years, making the quadricentennial of the Mayflowers arrival in the New World this year a big deal, with events planned on both sides of the Atlantic. The full-sized replica Mayflower Ⅱ, owned and operated by Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts, was relaunched last September after almost three years on the hard at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard at Mystic Seaport Museum, where a combined workforce of Mystic Seaport and Plimoth Plantation crewmem-bers conducted a full restoration of the ship. Over the winter, her crew is completing restoration projects with the ship in the water. By spring, her rig and equipment will be installed and she'll be ready for sea.