Claim: Bermuda was where the Sea Venture was wrecked.
Evidence: In 1609 , the English Virginia Company , which had established Jamestown in Virginia two years earlier , permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane , when the crew and passengers of the Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent its sinking , then landed ashore.
Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship , part of the Third Supply mission to the Jamestown Colony , that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609.