Possible Clues:

• Pilgrim Fathers' ship to the US
• Might for the present have blooming well got across the Atlantic
• Famous Pilgrim ship
• Has permission to approach Bloom - the pilgrims were taken away by it
• Ship could move like water? I'm not sure
• It landed at Plymouth
• Vessel of the Pilgrims
• Might take a pilgrimage to America before June for Bloom
• Spring a leak, perhaps, as old ship
• Cry of surprise about a river vessel crossing ocean