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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 ...
Bermuda Online. Mountford, Kent (1 May 2000). "Lessons from Jamestown 1609–1610: starving in the land of plenty". Chesapeake Bay Journal. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. "The Sea Ventture". Packrat Pro. – Packrat Pilgrim Ship Lists – the Sea Venture "The Sea Venture". rootsweb. – Ship Passenger and Immigration Lists
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17 April — Unnamed ship (Habsburg Netherlands): The unknown sloop-of-war may have been one of the ships sunk during the Battle of Flushing. [ 76 ] April — ( Spain ): During the Eighty Years' War a number of Spanish warships were lost in a battle with the Dutch fleet, when attempting to break a blockade on Middelburg .
Starting from settlement of St. George's Town in 1612 (the permanent settlement of Bermuda had begun with the wreck of the Sea Venture, the flagship of the Virginia Company, but the three men who remained from that ship had lived on Smith's Island, prior to the arrival of more settlers in 1612), the colony's militia built and garrisoned a range of fortifications, mostly protecting the ...
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...
Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Bermuda" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. SS Daram; I.
Somers had deliberately driven the ship onto the reefs to prevent its foundering, thereby saving all aboard. [2] The settlers and seamen spent ten months in Bermuda while they built two new ships to continue the voyage to Jamestown. During the building, Sea Venture's longboat was fitted with a mast and sent to find Jamestown. Neither it, nor ...