In the United States, today is celebrated as Thanksgiving, commermorating a 1621 feast of thanks-giving at the Plymouth colony in present-day Massachusetts. The year before in November of 1620 the ship Mayflower had carried a group of just over 100 English and Dutch Separatists, known as Pilgrims, across the Atlantic to the new colony.  Here is a short video about the Mayflower II, a replica of the original built in Devon, England, in a collaboration between  Warwick Charlton and the Plimoth Plantation.  On April 20, 1957, Mayflower II recreated the original voyage, sailing across the Atlantic under the command of Alan Villiers.

Mayflower II: A National Treasure