Some 400 years after the original Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, its unmanned robotic descendant has completed the first transatlantic crossing solely on its own decision-making. “I’m ...
May 5—Dick Stone couldn't get the image out of his head. It was a 1957 photograph of the Mayflower II, the replica of a ship that transported the Pilgrims to the New World, in full sail near New York ...
The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...