The Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, the wrecking of which in Bermuda is widely thought to have been the inspiration for Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. She was the flagship of the Virginia Company, and was a highly unusual vessel for her day.
Read more about Sea Venture: The Virginia Company, The Construction of The Sea Venture, The Loss of The Sea Venture, Deliverance and Patience, Postscript, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or venture:
“repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the
sea;
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)