Bermuda issued a set of four stamps in 1971, called the Deliverance issue. The 4 cents stamp shows the building of the Deliverance, 1609-10, the 15 cents the Deliverance and Patience arriving at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1610, while the 18 cents depicts the wreck of the Sea Venture in 1609. The 24 cents shows the Deliverance and Patience under sail.
The "Guide to the Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda" edited by Eugene Fodor, states that Sir George Somers was in command of a fleet of nine vessels carrying 500 passengers which sailed from Plymouth in June 1609 to relieve the starving colony of Jamestown, On the night of July 24, "a stern, a dreadful storm and hideous" broke, separating Sir George's flagship, the 300-ton Sea Venture, from the rest of the fleet. After an-"Egyptian Night of three days perpetual horror" with everyone aboard taking turns at the pumps, the leaking Sea Venture was beached on a Bermuda reef and her party was saved on July 28.
Sir George did not lose sight of his original mission. With native cedar and everything that could be salved from the Sea Venture the colonists built two small vessels, the Deliverance and Patience, and sailed them for Virginia in May 1610. They left behind two trouble makers who hid in the woods because they were afraid they would hang in Jamestown. Somers reached Virginia and returned to Bermuda for supplies but he died there in 1610.
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