iron-scrue

Updated: May 16, 2025

The "great iron-scrue," as Bradford calls it in his original MS., played, as all know, a most important part on the voyage, in forcing the "cracked and bowed" deck-beam of the ship into place. Governor Bradford tells us that "it was brought on board by one of the Leyden passengers," and one may hazard the guess that it was by either Moses Fletcher, the smith, or Francis Eaton, the "carpenter."

Azel Ames - The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 5