Mayflower 2 sails again.

From across the Mystic River in Connecticut, the Mayflower II can be seen afloat after a re-launch ceremony. (AP)
Chip Sowalski fires a canon to salute the re-launch of the Mayflower II at the Mystic, Connecticut Seaport Museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. (AP)
A crowd waits to watch the Mayflower II slide from dry dock into the river. (AP)
Shipwright Greg See fits a deck plank for the main deck of the Mayflower II at the H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. (AP)
The Mayflower was a square-rigged ship meant for cargo, not passengers. (RB)

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Mayflower 2 looks like the Pilgrims’ Mayflower. It is an exact copy. But it needed fixing up.

Now it has new boards, bolts, and ropes. All are just like they were on the Pilgrims’ Mayflower.

Mayflower 2 is ready to sail. It will honor the first Mayflower’s stormy trip. That was 400 years ago!

READ MORE: The Pilgrims first sailed to America on a small ship called the Mayflower. The people of England gave the United States Mayflower 2 about 60 years ago. It is an exact copy of the Pilgrims’ ship. After many years, it needed repairs. Experts spent three years fixing it. In 2020, Mayflower 2 will be part of a 400th anniversary celebration of the voyage of the Pilgrims in 1620. The Pilgrims praised God for their safe arrival at Plymouth with Psalm 107:1. “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.”