Note Type
1992 Inventory NotesNote
19:02 Model of The Deliverance, the original 80-ton vessel made in Bermuda 1609-1610 on St. George's Island from Bermuda cedar and partly from spars and rigging from the wrecked Sea Venture, under the supervision of Sir Thomas Gates. This is one of the two small ships on which the castaways off the Sea Venture, after their 42 weeks in Bermuda, arrived safely in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1610, under Admiral Sir George Somers' command. Old inventory reference B. Hist. S. 2. This particular model was made by P. M. Wright. In glassed-in case located in Somers Room.