TRUCK TO KEELSON: Ropes for Mayflower II

Ropes are manufactured at Gourock Ropeworks for the "Mayflower II", for a voyage reconstructing the pilgrim fathers' journey to America on the original Mayflower.

1956 | bw | sound

From this week's theme: Scotland and America

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