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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 .
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 ...
Sea Venture: William Brian: Sea Venture: Jeffrey Briars ️ Sea Venture: Died in Bermuda, c. 1609-1610 Richard Buck: Reverend, Chaplain Bucke or Bucket, R. Sea Venture: Uncertain if traveled with wife or children Maria Thorowgood Buck: Marye Thorowgood Sea Venture: Died 1620 Buck daughter (I) child, girl Bucket Sea Venture: Unknown name ...
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]
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