The Mayflower Paintings inspired by sentences from the Captain's Diary written in 1620
Wednesday, Aug.30th / Sept. 9th
"At anchor in Plymouth Roadstead off the Barbican. Transferring passengers and lading from consort lying nearby.
Weather Fine."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
Mayflower Lading
71cm x 91.5 cm Framed Oil on canvas
Wednesday, Sept.6th / Sept. 16th
"Weighed anchor. Wind E.N.E. , a fine gale.
Laid course W.S.W. for northern coast of Virginia."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
Mayflower Departure
120cm x 91cm Framed Oil on canvas
Sept.11th / Sept.21st
"The usual equinoctial weather deferred."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
Mayflower Autumn Equinox
41 cm x 51 cm Framed
Oil on canvas
Autumn Equinox
Thursday, Sept.7 / Sept.17th
"Comes in with wind E.N.E.
Light gale continues. Made all sails on ship."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
Full Sails on the Mayflower
51cm x 86 cm Framed Oil on canvas
Saturday, Sep.23rd / Oct.3rd
"The equinoctial disturbances over and strong October gales, the milder, warmer weather of late October followed.
Mistress Elizabeth Hopkins, of Billericay, in Essex, was delivered of a son, who, on account of the circumstances of his birth , was named Oceanus, the first birth aboard the ship during the voyage."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Birth of Oceanus"
61cm x 76 cm Framed Oil on canvas
Sat.Sept.23rd / Oct.3rd
"Same, and so without material change the daily record of wind, weather, and the ship's general coarse (the repetition of which would be both useless and wearisome) continued through the month and until the vessel was near half the seas over."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Halfway" 41cm x 30cm
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Saturday, Sept.23rd / Oct.3rd
"As for the decks and upper works, they would caulk them as well they could; and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch, yet there would otherwise be no great danger if they did not overpress her with sails.
So they resolved to proceed."
The Journal of the May-Flower
"Caulking the Mayflower Deck"
25cm x 25cm Framed Oil on canvas
Saturday, Sept.23rd / Oct.3rd
"Ship shrewdly shaken and her upper works made very leaky.
One of the main beams in the midships was bowed and cracked.
In examining of all opinions, the Master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm under water, and for the buckling, bending or bowing of the main beam, there was a great iron scrue the passengers brought out of Holland which would raise the main beam into its place."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"The Mayflower Screw "
25cm x 25cm Framed
Oil on canvas
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Wednesday, Sept.23rd / Oct.3rd
"A lusty young man, John Howland by name, coming upon some occasion above the gratings latticed covers to the hatches, was with the seel of the ship thrown into the sea, but caught hold of the topsail halliards, which hung overboard and ran out at length; yet he held his hold, though he was sundry fathoms under water, and then with a boathook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
John Howland Rescue on the Mayflower
51cm x 38 cm Framed Oil on canvas
Monday, Nov.9th / Nov.19th
"Closing in with land at nightfall.
Sighted land at daybreak.
The landfall made out to be Cape Cod the Bluffs."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Mayflower Arrival"
120cm x 91cm Framed Oil on canvas
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Monday, Sept. 11th/ Sept.21st
"Fine warm weather and the "Harvest Moon".
The usual equinoctial weather deferred."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Harvest Moon"
51cm x 61cm Unframed Oil on canvas
Saturday, Sept. 23rd / Oct. 3rd
"In sundry of these storms, the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as the ship could not bear a knot of sail, but was forced to hull drift under bare poles for divers days together."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Bare Poles "
41 cm x 41 cm Unframed Oil on canvas
Friday. Nov.24th / Dec. 4th
"At anchor in Cape Cod Harbour.
Continues cold and stormy."
The Journal of the Ship May-Flower
"Cape Cod Anchorage"
50 cm x 75 cms Framed Oil on canvas
Sept.23rd / Oct.3rd
"A succession of fine days, with favouring winds."