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Site/Position : On wall.

Main Transcription
Description : Lettering raised, all capitals, serif. Border raised. Coats of arms raised.
Transcription : THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED IN 1959 / BY THE PEOPLE OF BERMUDA / TO / COMMEMORATE THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE WRECK ON A BERMUDA REEF OF / SEA VENTURE; CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT, / FLAGSHIP OF ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE SOMERS WHOSE FLEET / SAILED FROM PLYMOUTH SOUND ON 2ND JUNE 1609 / TO CARRY SETTLERS AND SUPPLIES TO THE INFANT COLONY / AT JAMESTOWN IN VIRGINIA. ON BOARD SEA VENTURE / WERE 150 PERSONS INCLUDING SIR THOMAS GATES, / GOVERNOR DESIGNATE OF VIRGINA AND ALL THESE WERE / LANDED ON THE UNINHABITED ISLAND OF BERMUDA / IN TEN MONTHS THEY BUILT TWO VESSELS AND SAILED / ON TO JAMESTOWN. SIR GEORGE SOMERS / HAVING RETURNED TO BERMUDA FOR MORE SUPPLIES / DIED THERE ON 9TH NOVEMBER 1610 / HIS HEART WAS BURIED AT ST GEORGE'S BERMUDA / AND HIS BODY AT WHITCHURCH, DORSET. HIS NAME / WAS GIVEN TO THE BERMUDAS OR SOMERS ISLANDS, / NOW BRITAINS OLDEST COLONY

Additional Crests/Logos
Transcription : Two crests. (Latin) inscription at bottom. INCERTI QUO FATA FERUNT UBI SISTERE DETUR CONTRAHIMUSQUE VIROS VIRGILS AENEID BOOK III LINE 17.

Material : bronze

Reference Number : PLAQUE 104