VOYAGE BY NEW MAYFLOWER
Trials To Be Held In July (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 23. Another Mayflower a British goodwill gift to the people of America —will probably be ready for trials m July. The new Mayflower will sail from Plymouth and follow the tracks of her predecessor which carried the Pilgrim Fathers to Cape Cod, near Boston, in 1620. Skipper of the 183-ton ship will be the noted Australian sailor and author, Alan Villiers. The Mayflower, which is being built in an old Devon shipyard, will carry a crew of 21—the same as her predecessor—and 30 passengers. The original ship carried more than 100 passengers. It will not be a luxury crossing. Passengers will sleep on deck and only the captain and his officers will have bunks. Everyone will wear the rough , pilgrim home-spun. The only concessions to the twentieth century will be radio and rubber life rafts.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27875, 25 January 1956, Page 11
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