Sea Venture Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown

When the Sea Venture left England in 1609, it was flagship in a fleet of nine bound for Jamestown with roughly 600 settlers and badly needed supplies aboard. But after four weeks at sea, as the voyage neared its end, a hurricane hit devastating the fleet―one ship sank, the rest scattered, and the Sea Venture was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda. It would take Sea Venture's passengers nearly a year and half to reach their destination.
Awaiting them was not the thriving, populated colony they expected, but instead the grim reality of a remaining fifty colonists―beleaguered, desperate, and hungry. But, the question remains, would the English have lost their place in the New World if the
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