In one of the most triumphant shipwreck stories ever told, Sea Venture brings to life the remarkable true account of the ship that rescued the Jamestown settlement in 1610 and single-handedly ensured England's place in the New World. The Sea Venture left England in 1609 as the flagship of a fleet of nine. They were bound for the Jamestown colony with supplies and six hundred settlers. As the voyage neared it's end, a hurricane struck and the Sea Venture was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda. A year and a half later the castaways arrived at Jamestown to find only fifty colonists left alive. If they had never arrived, would England have lost their place in the New World? A story of strife and triumph and endurance, this story remains one of the greatest what-ifs of history.
Paperback. 276 pages.
Title: Sea Venture - Shipwreck, Survival and the Salvation of Jamestown
Author: Kieran Doherty
ISBN: 0312382073
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