The Mayflower: What Was Life Like At Sea?

American History Hit

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America, History

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A cargo hold, just 5 feet tall and divided up with canvas - this is what served as the living quarters for the 102 passengers of the Mayflower on their 66 day crossing to North America.

Don is joined by guest Anna Scott, a researcher from the University of Lincoln, to find out what this journey was really like. From the failures of the Speedwell to the tensions between passengers on arrival in the wrong place, how has this group of colonists become so intrinsic to the American story?

Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.

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1:09.3	November 11, 1620.
1:13.6	The Mayflower arrives off the shores of Cape Cod, anchoring in what is today Provincetown Harbor in Massachusetts.
1:18.6	For the next five weeks, it will remain anchored here,
1:21.6	as search parties are dispatched ashore to scout sites for settlement all along the Cape. They'll finally choose a location about 30 miles across the bay,
1:31.3	a place previously mapped by an earlier English expedition,
1:35.3	and coincidentally, named for the harbor town these pilgrims had seen
1:39.3	before leaving England for the last time.
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