User:Steveprutz/jamestown/seaventurelist

Template
Known mariners and others with the colonists (but did not remain at Jamestown)


 * 1) Bragg, Thomas - Teenaged Deckhand of Christopher Newport
 * 2) Bragg, George - Teenaged Deckhand of Christopher Newport
 * 3) Newport, Christopher - Captain, Councilor ex officio (d. 1617)


 * George Kendall (Jamestown council member)
 * Councilor and Captain

THIRD SUPPLY TABLE

 * Pictograms-nps-misc-partially submerged wreck-2.svg

With 500 to 600 persons, a fleet of nine ships set sail in May 1609 led by Thomas Gates and George Somers. The ships were named Sea Venture, Catch, Diamond, Faulcon [sic], Blessinge, Unitie [sic], Lion, Swallow, and Virginia.

In July, a tropical storm struck the flotilla. The Catch vanished with all aboard, and the Sea Venture shipwrecked on Bermuda, inadvertently colonizing the island. The seven remaining ships arrived at Jamestown only to bring diseased and hungry passengers to the stressed colony.


 * Council members in bold. Those who died at sea or in Bermuda are indicated with a Latin cross (✝️). Titles and occupations are from era accounts, but use modern British spellings.