Thanksgiving. Yeah, it’s Pilgrims and Indians and football and pumpkin pie, but the main (and often over-looked) character of the traditional story is a ship. A sea adventure embarked upon by a group of non-mariners. Charter vessels that carried a human cargo of religious separatists from their woodsy home in Scrooby; first to Leiden in the Netherlands, and ultimately across the Atlantic ocean to the English colonies in the New World. Star of the show:17th-century-merchantman (3,382 × 1,581 pixels) Maritime Monday for November 26th, 2012;God With Us

Thanksgiving. Yeah, it’s Pilgrims and Indians and football and pumpkin pie, but the main (and often over-looked) character of the traditional story is a ship. A sea adventure embarked upon by a group of non-mariners. Charter vessels that carried a human cargo of religious separatists from their woodsy home in Scrooby; first to Leiden in the Netherlands, and ultimately across the Atlantic ocean to the English colonies in the New World.

Star of the show:
17th-century-merchantman
(3,382 × 1,581 pixels)

Maritime Monday for November 26th, 2012;
God With Us

Posted on November 26th, 2012
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