MAYFLOWER (1609)
The Mayflower was used primarily as a cargo ship, involved
in active trade of goods (often wine) between England and
other European countries, (principally France, but also Norway,
Germany, and Spain). At least between 1609 and 1622, it was
mastered by Christopher Jones, who would command the ship
on the famous transatlantic voyage, and based in Rotherhithe,
London, England. After the famous voyage of the Mayflower,
the ship returned to England, likely dismantled for scrap
lumber in Rotherhithe in 1623, only a year after Jones's death
in March 1622. The Mayflower Barn, just outside the Quaker
village of Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, England, is said to
be built from these timbers, but this is likely apocryphal.
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