The Mayflower is an English float, or type of sailing merchant vessel, dating from the early 17th century. The vessel was probably launched before 1609 and one of its owners was Christopher Jones. "Mayflower" probably had a displacement of about 180-200 tons and a length of about 25-30 meters. The unit probably did not have permanent artillery weapons. The Mayflower became famous for its voyage between the city of Plymouth in England and present-day Plymouth in the United States between September and November 1620. About 100 so-called pilgrims, that is, followers of Puritanism (one of the factions of the Anglican Church with a noticeable influence of Calvinism), persecuted in their homeland. To avoid them, they decided to go to the New World and start - no matter how pathetic it sounds - a completely new life, in accordance with their religious and ethical principles. It is no less important that before disembarking, all male members of the expedition wrote down the so-called Mayflower Agreement, which is sometimes considered the first written social contract and the ideological basis of the later US Constitution, although, of course, there are ongoing disputes among researchers on this topic. However, the fate of the Mayflower itself is not entirely clear. It almost certainly returned to England in 1621 and may have been decommissioned between 1622 and 1624. It is worth adding that in 1956 a copy of the Mayflower was built.
