A nearly 50-foot-long ship set out on June 15 to sail from England to the United States autonomously. But a mechanical problem has forced its designers to return it to port.

In 1620, the Mayflower ship set sail from Plymouth, England on 16 September. Today that memory is being recreated by a new ship setting sail, but this one doesn't have any passengers.

The Mayflower was originally a merchant ship that transported goods across the English Channel. Its castle-like structures fore and aft of the ship were designed to protect the crew from the elements.

The new Mayflower’s journey was originally scheduled for last year, part of 400th anniversary commemorations of the original ship’s voyage carrying Pilgrim settlers to New England.

But supporters of the Mayflower Project say that Harwich was the Mayflower's original home port and insist that therefore the ship's real journey began there.

The replica of the original Mayflower ship is preparing to embark from Connecticut after three years and $11.2 million worth of renovations — and several months of delays caused by the COVID-19 ...

The ship was launched and christened last September, 400 years to the day after the original Mayflower left Plymouth carrying settlers, who became known as Pilgrims.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World nearly 400 years ago is undergoing major repairs. The 56-year-old Mayflower II was brought to dry dock in ...

Mayflower II is sailing home to Plymouth after three-year, $11-million makeover People watch as the Mayflower II arrives in Plymouth Harbor in Plymouth, Mass., in June 2016.

The Mayflower Resolution, the wind turbine installation ship that proved a costly diversification for the collapsed car and bus making group, has been bought by a management buy-out team for a ...

The administrator at Mayflower Corporation is hoping to raise more than £20m from the sale of the bus and coach company's 14,000 tonne wind turbine installation ship, the Mayflower Resolution.

Cue the cameras: The Mayflower II is ready for its closeup and its journey home. The replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 is ...