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Video Preview: LookBermuda’s Sea Venture Film
After five years in production, LookBermuda’s Sea Venture film will be screened as the opening night local film at the 2014 Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] on March 21st, which will be followed by the official Premiere in April / May. The Sea Venture is an integral part of the Bermuda story, her wrecking led to the permanent settlement... Read more of this article

Washington Irving On Bermuda’s “Three Kings”
The tale of the “Three Kings of Bermuda” — a trio of survivors from the “Sea Venture” wreck left behind on the island after the final departure of the “Patience” for England in 1610 and the arrival of the first permanent settlers in 1612 — has inspired archaeologists from the University of Rochester to... Read more of this article

The Search To Find The “Sea Venture” Wreck
Over the centuries Bermuda’s extensive coral reef system has become a graveyard for literally hundreds of vessels — including a 300-ton 17th century English merchant ship which changed the course of the island’s history. The “Sea Venture” was the flagship of Admiral Sir George Somers’ relief fleet dispatched from... Read more of this article

Archaeological Team Returns To Smith’s Island
A team of visiting archaeologists from New York’s University of Rochester returns to Smith’s Island this summer hoping to uncover artifacts associated with Bermuda’s first three permanent residents as well as enslaved 17th century Native Americans and Africans. Headed by Dr. Michael Jarvis and working on Smith’s Island since... Read more of this article

Lyme Regis Dignitaries Visit St. George’s
The mayor of Lyme Regis — birthplace of Sir George Somers — led an eight-man delegation to Bermuda recently for the annual Peppercorn Ceremony held in St, George’s, the historic English coastal community’s twin town. Mayor Sally Holman and other Lyme Regis dignitaries spent a week on the island to mark the historical and cultural... Read more of this article

Press Marks Anniversary With Bermuda Book
In May 1964, the University of Virginia Press released its first original publication, “A Voyage to Virginia in 1609, Two Narratives” by William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain, twin accounts of the “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda edited by the late Louis B. Wright, who at the time was director of the Folger Shakespeare Library... Read more of this article

Archaeologists Confirm Jamestown Cannibalism
Archaeologists have confirmed Jamestown’s colonists resorted to cannibalism during the “starving time” winter of 1609-10 prior to the arrival of two provision-laden ships built in Bermuda by the “Sea Venture” castaways. In a presentation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, archaeologist... Read more of this article

Video: How Bermuda Saved Jamestown
When the survivors of the Bermuda “Sea Venture” wreck arrived in Virginia in 1610, they found the English settlement of Jamestown reduced to what has been called “a worlde of miserie” — with famished colonists eating dogs, cats and snakes. And perhaps one another. The castaways, who finally escaped from the island aboard... Read more of this article

Bermuda Debunks Film’s Conspiracy Theory
The historical conspiracy theory offered up in a Hollywood blockbuster opening today [Oct.28] — namely, that William Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford — can be disproved by one stubborn fact: the 1609 “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda. Director Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous” is... Read more of this article

Lyme Regis Somers Statue Plans Put On Hold
Plans to honour Bermuda’s founding father in his English birthplace have been put on hold due to lack of funds. The English coastal town of Lyme Regis in conjunction with St. George’s — its Bermuda twin town — had announced plans to commission and erect a £35,000 bronze statue of Admiral Sir George Somers. Sir George, a former... Read more of this article

Shakespeare And The ‘Sea Venture’ Wreck
American historian Hobson Woodward has argued July 28, 2009 marked two quadricentennials — one was the unintended founding of Bermuda by the “Sea Venture” castaways who came ashore here on a rain-whipped day in 1609. The other was the 400th anniversary of the sprite Ariel, the wild man Caliban and mercurial magician Prospero —... Read more of this article

Shakespeare In Love — In Bermuda
Her Bermuda honeymoon inspired American romance novelist Kathryn Johnson’s latest book “Gentleman Poet”, a historical “What If?” novel based on the premise William Shakespeare was inspired to write “The Tempest” because he was aboard the “Sea Venture” when the ship foundered on the island’s... Read more of this article