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 ...

There is no evidence Plymouth Rock is the exact boulder where Pilgrims first disembarked the Mayflower in Plymouth in 1620, nor that it was found at sea level. The rock has also been moved several ...

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock. The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts ...

We are marking a great American anniversary this month. In November 1620 a battered old ship called the Mayflower arrived in the waters off Cape Cod in what is now the state of Massachusetts. The ...

T’was 400 years ago this month, a shipload of Pilgrims and sailors arrived in New England waters after a voyage of 66 days aboard t he Mayflower from England. Seeking to settle near the mouth of the ...

The Mayflower Pilgrims are famed for founding Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, after landing in 1620. They later celebrated the first "Thanksgiving", which has become an enduring American tradition.

One month into the voyage of the Mayflower, John Howland, an indentured servant from Huntingtonshire, could bear the smells and the damp and the darkness below deck no more. He went upstairs for some ...

Though the Plymouth colonists held the first-ever Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag natives -- an enduring symbol of the American spirit -- they are now disparaged. Their descendants are livid. Getty ...

You’re crammed in a room, shoulder-to-shoulder with 100 other passengers. It’s dark. It smells. It’s wet and very cold. There’s no privacy. No bathrooms. Your meals are pitiful — salted meat and a ...