Mayflower (disambiguation)
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In botany, several different plants are called "mayflower":
A number of ships have been named after the flower:
- The most famous is the Pilgrim ship Mayflower.
- Another ship named Mayflower sailed with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630
- USS Mayflower - three ships: screw tug, presidential yacht, lighthouse tender
- HMCS Mayflower (K191) - a World War II corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy
- Mayflower - 1886 America's Cup yacht
- See http://www.sail1620.org/history/namesakes.html for more namesakes.
Other things named after the ship Mayflower include:
- Mayflower - two blimps
- Mayflower Hotel
- Mayflower High School
- Mayflower Line, the railway line from Manningtree to Harwich in Essex
- Mayflower Transit, a moving company
- Mayflower Theatre
- Mayflower, Arkansas is a town in the State of Arkansas in the United States of America.
- Mayflower Donuts, a now-defunct doughnut baking company based in New York
- Mayflower (publisher), a now-defunct book publisher
- The Mayflower (train), a passenger service from London to Plymouth
- Mayflower - name of the ship in "Farmer In The Sky" a sci-fi novel by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Mayflower Archaeology Site - A Maya archaeology site in Belize
