2007-12-06 03:48:00 · 11 answers · asked by wisdom 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Storms carried them off course on the way over.
2007-12-06 03:51:44 · answer #1 · answered by Yun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps they were not very good navigators. Mostly they were a bunch of landlubbers with little or no knowledge of seafaring.
I'm not sure what his name was, but the navigator they had was an uneducated sort more a buccaneer really, who was probably being paid to delay things, or what, who knows!
Anyway they landed at a place which they then named Plymouth Rock - this is because the prow of the Speedwell had bashed into it making the ship unseaworthy.
Being stuck between a rock and a hard place - you've got to make a decision, so it was a toss up between PlymouthHard or PlymouthRock. The vote went in favor of Rock or what thus became known as Rockenroll.
2007-12-06 20:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had planned on landing in Virginia. However, due to inclimate weather, they had to drop them off at Plymouth Rock. The crew of the ship had to drop them when they did in order to have enough provisions for the long trip back. They were running low on everything so they did what they had to do.
2007-12-06 04:10:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it took about 100 years of sailing back and forth from Europe to North America to figure out there was something called the Gulf Stream out there....a huge underwater river in the sea which carries enough warmth from the Gulf of Mexico to keep Scotland and Norway relatively warm in winter....
if you're sailing from Europe to America this current runs from your left to your right and pushed you to the right....or North...of course,. at about 50-75 miles a day for the two days you'd be in it.. The Pilgrims were aiming for Virginia and hit Cape Cod; to hit Virginia they should have aimed for Florida......
no one figured this out till Ben Franklin got the idea and Mauray did the oceanography work 150 years after Plymouth....
2007-12-06 04:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The current weather at that time and useless compass I guess
2007-12-06 05:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jenn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had the map the wrong way round.
2007-12-06 03:51:33 · answer #6 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-12-06 11:11:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a woman was navigating.
2007-12-06 03:53:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They got lost.
2007-12-06 03:57:14 · answer #9 · answered by Soup Dragon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a woman was driving
2007-12-06 03:52:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋