On Sept. 16, 1620, the Mayflower — an 80-foot British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who wanted to build a new world — departed from Plymouth, England, on this day in history.

On a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are? airing Sunday, Oscar-winning actress Allison Janney found out her connection to the Mayflower in 1620. Due to her strong bond with her grandmother ...

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.

An unmanned robotic boat retracing the Mayflower's 1620 sea voyage has arrived near Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, over 400 years after the European settlers' initial pilgrimage. The vessel known ...

A crewless, autonomous ship retracing the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower that brought the Pilgrims from England has landed near Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.

The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 11, 1620, broke ranks with English political theory and practice, in which unelected monarchs issued decrees and ruled by divine right.

On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower arrived on the eastern coast of North America. She had weathered the slings and arrows of maritime misfortune for almost ten weeks at that point, but the ...

The Mayflower finally dropped anchor off Cape Cod on 11 November 1620. Soon afterwards, Susannah White gave birth to a son, the first English child born in the colony.

Mayflower’s timbers and beams were built into a barn that stands alongside a comfortable guest house at Jordans, in the Chilterns of Buckinghamshire.

The autonomous Mayflower is getting ready to set sail on the same route the original ship took 400 years ago. The craft will conduct trial missions and be unveiled on September 16.

Mayflower, which transported 102 passengers known as the Pilgrims, took 10 weeks to reach its destination in the autumn of 1620. MAS, meanwhile, took just over five weeks.