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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 Bermuda .
Wreck of Sea Venture. During the tropical storm, Sea Venture was separated from the seven other vessels of the third supply fleet and began taking on water through her new caulking. On July 28 and with bailing efforts failing, Somers had the ship deliberately driven onto the reefs at Discovery Bay in eastern Bermuda to prevent her sinking. [34]
Yeardley set sail from England on June 1, 1609, with the newly appointed Sir Thomas Gates aboard the Sea Venture, the flagship of the ill-fated Third Supply expedition to Jamestown. After eight weeks at sea, and seven days from expected landfall, the convoy ran into a tropical storm and the Sea Venture was shipwrecked in the Bermuda island ...
Bermuda had been settled, inadvertently, in 1609 by the Virginia Company when its flagship, Sea Venture, was wrecked on the reefs to its east. [1] The Admiral of the company, Sir George Somers , was at the helm as the ship fought a storm that had broken apart a relief fleet destined for Jamestown , the Virginian settlement established by the ...
28 July — Sea Venture ( England): Having left England for the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the Sea Venture was blown off course and, on seeing land, was deliberately grounded on a reef east of St. George's Island, Bermuda. The one hundred and fifty crew and passengers were the first settlers on Bermuda. [8]
The S.S. Point Reyes, long ago abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay, has been loved and abused by decades of visitors. And its days appear to be numbered.
It said a robot surveyed the wreck, whose exact location has been kept secret since its discovery in 2015, between May 23 and June 1, covering an area "equivalent to more than 40 professional ...
Sea Venture England: 25 July 1609 An English ship that was deliberately grounded after taking damage in a storm, and subsequently broke up and sank. Taunton Norway: 24 November 1920 A Norwegian steamer that was wrecked on the northern reefs. Virginia Merchant: 26 March 1661 A passenger and cargo ship that ran aground off Sonesta Beach. HMS Vixen