Sea Venture

*Sea Venture*
	The coat of arms of Bermuda features a representation of the Sea Venture wreck.
History
Launched	probably 1603
Fate	Wrecked
General characteristics
Tonnage	300 tons
Armament	8 × 9-pounder (4.1 kg) demi-culverins; 8 × 5-pounder (2.3 kg) sakers; 4 × 3-pounder (1.4 kg) falcons; 4 × arquebuses;

Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. She was the 300 ton flagship of the London Company. During the voyage to Virginia, Sea Venture encountered a tropical storm and was wrecked, with her crew and passengers landing on the uninhabited Bermuda. Sea Venture's wreck is widely thought to have been the inspiration for William Shakespeare's 1611 play The Tempest.