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Finding Deliverance
 To see how the shipwreck survivors of 1609 finally escaped this remote archipelago, tour a life-size replica of Deliverance, newly restored, with mannequins in period costume, located on Ordnance Island in St. George’s Harbour.
In 1609, the newly constructed Sea Venture and eight sister vessels launched from England with colonists and supplies bound for the moribund settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.
But Sea Venture never made it there. Instead, it nearly sank in a storm before it was driven on to a reef near today’s Town of St. George. The rigging, sails and planks, along with native Bermuda Cedars, were used to build two smaller ships, Patience and Deliverance. In May 1610, these finally arrived in Jamestown, saving its 60 remaining settlers — there had been 500.
Four centuries later, concerned St. Georgians rescued the replica of Deliverance, which was built in 1967 and had fallen into disrepair. Now owned and operated by the St. George’s Foundation, the ship underwent a five-month restoration and opened just in time for Bermuda’s 400th anniversary in 2009.
The project built a new mizzenmast, replaced rotten planks, repaired rigging, installed floodlights and waterproofed the ship. Now visitors are greeted by an animatronic William Strachey, the Virginia Company secretary who wrote a firsthand account about the founding of Bermuda and the salvation of Virginia. The Deliverance is open to the public Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $3 adults, $2 students.
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