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Mayflower Ship Model Todd Navy Yard Pilgrim old #977421

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Mayflower Ship Model Todd Navy Yard Pilgrim old #977421
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Circa 1915, property of the Todd Ship building yard of New Jersey given to a cooperation officer as a retirement gift during the final days of the ship yard in the mid 1980's. Size: 32 inches height, 36 inches width.

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"The Mayflower could have been little larger than a canal boat . . . about 90 feet long and some 24 feet wide, and served by a crew of from 15 to 20 men.
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Of her three masts those for and aft have been described as being
"square rigged and without jibs," while the "mizzen" mast carried a "lateen"
sail. The body of the vessel included a high forecastle and a high poop
deck which left the middle of the ship low. History describes the
Mayflower as being "broad of beam, short in the waist, low between decks and not tight in her upper works," She was, in other words, what seamen know as a "wet" ship, and being heavily loaded as "low in the water."
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The crew occupied the quarters fore . . . while the passengers (102) were placed aft "in bunks and cabins."
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William Bradford's classic account of the Mayflower's voyage does not
mention the ship by name, nor does it describe the vessel. In 1926, however, a model was constructed by R. C. Anderson from general information about late-16th-century merchant ships of its tonnage. This model, which is in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, gives the ship's dimensions as 90 ft (27.4 m) long, with a 64-ft (19.5-m) keel, 26-ft (7.9-m) beam,and a hold 11 ft (3.4 m) deep.
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In 1957 a close replica of the Mayflower, ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:Circa 1915</td></tr>






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<tr><td>Location:Long Island, NY</td></tr>
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