What was the eventual fate of the ship 'Mayflower'?

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it was scraped " On May 26, 1624, an application was received by the High Court of Admiralty from Mayflower owners, Robert Child, John Moore and the widow of Christopher Jones declaring the ship to be "in ruinis" and requesting an appraisment. She was valued at �128 8s. 4d. This was the last recorded reference. There have been several claims advanced as to what happened to the Mayflower after she was scrapped. One is that the timbers of the ship were incorporated into the construction of a barn in Buckinghamshire. To quote Samuel Eliot Morison: "The Rev. J. Rendel Harris, the gentleman who argues for an Egyptian discovery of America, in an extraordinary pair of books The Finding of the Mayflower and The Last of the Mayflower (1920) demonstrates in a series of wild syllogisms that the Mayflower's bones came to their final resting place as the roof timbers on an old barn at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, which is preserved by the Society of Friends." (Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation, Morison ed., 1984, p. 52n.) The masts of Mayflower have also been claimed by Harris to exist as wooden pillars in an "Independent" or rather Baptist chapel in Abington, Oxfordshire, England, that was built around 1700, for which there is no evidence beyond a local tradition that they were the masts of the Brielle, the ship which brought William of Orange to England in 1688. Harris simply prefers that they be of the Mayflower" http://www.sail1620.org/discover_myth_the_good_ship_mayflower.shtml Feb 27 07, 9:25 PM