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Harwich Mayflower Project to build life-size replica

A charity aims to put Harwich back at the heart of the Pilgrim Fathers story by building a £2.5m replica of the ship which sailed to America in 1620.
The Mayflower left Plymouth in Devon on 6 September, but the Harwich Mayflower Project said the ship's Essex origins were just as important.
The replica should be ready for a 400th anniversary voyage to the USA in 2020.
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The Mayflower was the ship that transported English and Dutch Separatists and other adventurers referred to by the Separatists as "the Strangers" to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers and about 30 crew members aboard the small 100-foot ship.
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