Designed by naval architect Iver Franzen, the ship was built at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum shipyard in St. Michael's, Maryland.

Documentation of the project can be found on www.MarylandDove.org The ship, Maryland Dove, was commissioned and delivered to Historic St. Mary's City on August 29, 2022.

[3] At the Isle of Wight, Dove and her larger sister ship The Ark embarked again with two Jesuit (Society of Jesus) priests/chaplains and nearly two hundred more settlers before setting out across the Atlantic.

[6] Back in England, Baltimore could do little to help the young colony through its tribulations, which included an ongoing feud with Claiborne that led to a series of naval skirmishes.

[citation needed] 1978 Dove was used extensively to represent the Mayflower in the 1979 made-for-TV film 'Mayflower: The Pilgrims Adventure' starring Anthony Hopkins as Captain Jones as well as Richard Crenna and Jenny Aguttar.