Hello everyone and welcome back to scary interesting and to two more of the worst disasters in history.

The disasters in today's video are almost unthinkable today, but back in the day things were different and this led to countless and often pointless losses of life.

As always, viewer discretion is advised.

In the year 1620, a ship called the Mayflower carried more than 100 passengers and a crew of up to 50 across the Atlantic Ocean from England to the so-called New World. For Americans, the story of the Mayflower is taught in history classes across the country

as a large-than-life symbolic manifestation of the spirit America was founded on.

What tends to get lost in the story of the Mayflower, however, is that it was just one

of countless ships carrying immigrants from Europe to America at the time.

In fact, as many as 20,000 people made this transatlantic crossing in search of free of countless ships carrying immigrants from Europe to America at the time.

In fact, as many as 20,000 people made this Transatlantic Crossing in search of freedom

beginning in 1630, and many of them settled in what is called New England.

This is a region today that includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,

Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Several years later, in 1635, yet another fleet began a voyage to the New World, bound for Boston.

One of these five ships, the James, carried 100 passengers, including Reverend Richard

Mathur, who was fleeing Europe after being suspended by the Church of England for how he

dressed as a member of the clergy.

The James was one of the two larger, heavier ships in the fleet,

with the other being the 240-ton Angel Gabriel. And because these two were larger, they were

also slower, so the three smaller, faster ships made it to Boston well ahead of them. As these

two ships entered the final leg of the voyage in the latter half of August 1635, they'd find

out soon enough just how dire the consequences

would be for lagging behind.

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