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The ''Sea Venture'' was a 17th-century English sailing ship which may have been the inspiration for Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' . In 1609 the ''Sea Venture'' was the flagship of an eight-ship fleet which set sail for Jamestown, Virginia as part of the Third Supply , a 500-to-600 person fleet reinforcing the colony that year, and the first such effort to become truly successful. The fleet ran into a strong storm, likely a Hurricane , and the ships were separated. The ''Sea Venture'' itself did not complete the journey, but ran into rocks near Bermuda . The crew struggled to keep the ship afloat for days, but eventually were stranded on the shore of Bermuda. All 150 passengers made it to shore safely. The passengers, including all the colony's officials (Governor Thomas West , Admiral George Somers , the ship's captain Christopher Newport , Captain Samuel Jordan , and secretary William Strachey ), were stranded on Bermuda for approximately nine months. During that time, they built two new Pinnaces , ''Deliverance'' and ''Patience'', from the ''Sea Venture'''s remains. All but two of the passengers continued to Jamestown, arriving there on May 10 , 1610 . The ordeal was recounted by Strachey, whose account is believed to have influenced the creation of Shakespeare's play '' The Tempest ''. 20th-century American author Scott O'Dell wrote and published a fictionalized account of the ''Sea Venture'' shipwreck called ''The Serpent Never Sleeps''. |
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