Sources

Information for the The Journey of the Mayflower II website has been drawn from letters, newspaper clippings and materials in Plimoth Plantation’s Mayflower II archives, unpublished journals kept by members of the 1957 crew and the published works listed below. The video clips have been selected from 2006 interviews with Mayflower II crewmembers recorded as part of the Mayflower II Oral History Project.

Baker, William A. “The Arrangment and Construction of Early Seventeenth-Century Ships.” The American Neptune 15(4). October, 1955.

Baker, William A. “Early Seventeenth-Century Ship Design.” The American Neptune 14(4): 262-277. October, 1954.
 
Baker, William A. The Mayflower and Other Colonial Vessels. London: Conway Maritime  Press, 1983.

Baker, William A. “The Mayflower Problem.” The American Neptune. 14(1): 5-17. January, 1954.

Baker, William A. The New Mayflower: Her Design and Construction. Barre: Barre
Gazette, 1958.

Bromund, Ted R. “‘This Somewhat Embarrassing Ship’: The British Foreign Office and Mayflower II, 1954-1957.” The New England Quarterly 72(1): 42-60. March, 1999.

Charlton, Warwick. The Second Mayflower Adventure. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1957.

Curtin, Ted, and Baker, James W. Mayflower II: Plimoth Plantation. Little Compton: Fort  Church Publishers, 1993.

Edey, Maitland, and Tenney, Gordon. “A Mayflower Sails into Today.” Life. 42(24): 19-37. June 17, 1957.

Padfield, Peter. The Sea is a Magic Carpet.  London: Peter Davies, 1959.

Ronnberg, Erik A. R., Jr. William Avery Baker: A Tribute from His Friends. New Bedford: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 1982.

Upham, Stuart A. The Illustrated Story of How Mayflower II Was Built. Plymouth: Plimoth Plantation, [1963].

Villiers, Alan. Give Me a Ship to Sail. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959.

Villiers, Alan. “How We Sailed Mayflower II to America.” National Geographic 112(5):
627-672. November, 1957.

Villiers, Alan. The New Mayflower. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958.

Villiers, Alan. “We’re Coming over on the Mayflower.” National Geographic 111(5):
708-728. May, 1957.

Worcester, G. R. G. “The Society’s Annual Lecture: The Voyage of Mayflower II.” Mariner’s Mirror 44(2): 91-3. 1958.

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