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August 26, 1942 – A Category 2 hurricane passes about 100 mi (160 km) to the east; winds reach 64 mph (103 km/h) in Bermuda. [ 68 ] September 28, 1942 – A tropical storm curves around Bermuda with marginal tropical storm-force winds. [ 68 ] October 3, 1942 – Winds blow around 45 mph (70 km/h) as a tropical storm passes to the east.
Map of the island of Bermuda. Bermuda was first documented by a European in 1503 by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent it from sinking ...
September 7 [O.S. August 28] The Second Great Colonial Hurricane or The New England Hurricane of 1675. A hurricane said to be almost as powerful as the 1635 New England Hurricane swept the New England coastal region. Blew down many trees in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and destroyed wharves.
On Sept. 13, 1712, Capt. Benjamin Bennett, Governor of Bermuda, wrote, "On the 8th, about two in the afternoon began the most severest hurricane that has bee Bermuda's resiliency to hurricanes ...
Contents. Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons. This is a list of all known or suspected Atlantic hurricanes up to 1599. Although most storms likely went unrecorded, and many records have been lost, recollections of hurricane occurrences survive from some sufficiently populated coastal areas, and rarely, ships at sea that survived the tempests ...
Sea Venture. Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. She was the 300 ton flagship of the London Company. During the voyage to Virginia, Sea Venture encountered a tropical storm and was wrecked, with her crew and passengers landing on the uninhabited ...
Wreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda Robert Rich wrote a " verse pamphlet ", "Newes from Virginia: the lost flocke triumphant." [ note 2 ] [ 3 ] Along with the writings of William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain , became well known in England by 1610, when Thomas Gates and Christopher Newport retold the saga in London.
Captain John Smith's 1624 map of Bermuda, showing contemporary fortifications. Between 1612 and 1687, Bermuda had a series of militias under the Virginia Company, the Somers Isles Company, and the British Crown. In 1687, the first Militia Act was enacted. Spain had claimed the entirety of the New World, including Bermuda, for itself, and ...