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Site/Position : On RNLI shop, Madeira Road.

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Description : Lettering is is raised. There is a slightly raised border around the edge.
Transcription : THE MAYFLOWER SAILED FROM HER SEPTEMBER 16 (NEW STYLE), 1620, FOR PLYMOUTH, / NEW ENGLAND. PART OF HER PASSENGERS WERE COLONISTS FROM LONDON, PART WERE A / SEPERATIST CONGREGATION WHICH HAD BEGUN IN BABWORTH, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ON / JULY 11, 1586, AND HAD MOVED TO SCROOBY IN 1606, TO AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, IN / 1608 AND TO LEYDEN IN 1609. THE LEYDEN GROUP HAD SAILED ON THE SPEEDWELL FROM DELFT / HAVEN AUGUST 1 (N.S.), 1620, FOR SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND, TO JOIN THE LONDON GROUP / WHO WERE ON THE MAYFLOWER. BOTH SHIPS LEFT SOUTHAMPTON ON AUGUST 15 (N.S.), BUT LEAKS IN / THE SPEEDWELL FORCED A TURNING BACK FOR REPAIRS. LEAVING DARTMOUTH / AFTER PROCEEDING ABOUT 300 MILES, THE LEAKY SPEEDWELL CAUSED A SECOND RETURN OF / BOTH SHIPS, THIS TIME TO PLYMOUTH. HERE THE SPEEDWELL WAS ABANDONED, AND THE PASSENGERS / OF BOTH SHIPS COMBINED ON THE MAYFLOWER - 102. ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER WAS THE SPIRITUAL / LEADER OF THE SEPERATIST PILGRIMS, AND REMAINED SO IN PLYMOUTH NEW ENGLAND, UNTIL / HIS DEATH IN 1643 - 44. / STEPHEN HOPKINS OF WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, GOUCESTERSHIRE (LATER OF ST. MARY MATFELLON, / WHITECHPEL, LONDON), A SEPARATIST, MADE HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE NEW WORLD IN / THE MAYFLOWER (180 TONS) IN 1620. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SAILED FROM HERE IN THE SEA VENTURE / (300 TONS) ON LULY 23, 1609. HE REACHED VIRGINIA IN 1610, AFTER HAVING BEEN DRIVEN ASHORE IN BERMUDA, WHERE HIS SHIPWRECK FURNISHED THE SUBJECT FOR / THE TEMPEST (1611) BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS (U.S.A., 1897) /
WALDO MORGAN ALLEN, GOVERNOR GENERAL / ON THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE - 152, BY PLANES - TO THE NETHERLANDS AND ENGLAND / SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 6, 1955 / 335 YEARS AFTER THE SAILING OF THE MAYFLOWER.

Material : cast bronze

Reference Number : PLAQUE 099