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 Artist's interpretation of Sea Venture on a Bermuda stamp, 1910
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| History | |
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| Name | Sea Venture, Sea Adventure,[1] Seaventure,[2] Sea-Vulture[3] |
| Owner | Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex[4] |
| Launched | probably 1603 |
| Fate | Wrecked |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Race-built galleon[citation needed] |
| Tonnage | 300 tons |
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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. Sea Venture's wreck is widely thought to have been the inspiration for William Shakespeare's 1611 play The Tempest.
- ^ Craven, Wesley Frank (April 1937). "An Introduction to the History of Bermuda". The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 17 (2): 176–215. doi:10.2307/1925276. JSTOR 1925276. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ Boddie, John Bennett (1966). Colonial Surry. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 19. ISBN 9780806300269.
- ^ Irving, Washington (1861). The Works of Washington Irving: Wolfert's Roost. G.P. Putnam. p. 103.
- ^ Woolley, Benjamin. Savage Kingdom: Virginia and The Founding of English America (Text Only). United Kingdom, HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.