George Somers Tempest". During their time on the islands, the crew and passengers built a church and houses, the start of the Bermuda colony. Somers and Sir Thomas Gates oversaw the construction of two small ships, the "Deliverance" and the "Patience." They were built from local timber (Bermuda Cedar) and the salvaged spars and rigging of the wrecked "Sea Venture." In May 1610 the ships set sail for Jamestown, with the surviving 142 castaways on board taking food from the island. When they reached the settlement, they found it nearly destroyed by the famine and disease of what has been called the
Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) Ptichy Island (, "Ostrov Ptichy", meaning "Bird Island") is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Ptichy Island is one of the Shantar Islands. It lies between the southwest point of Bolshoy Shantar and Cape Bol'shoy Dugandzha on the mainland. It is a little over 1.6 km (1 mi) in length and rises to a height of 290 m (951 ft). Between 1857 and 1885, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Ptichiy. They called it Stinker Island, "on account of the dead whales drifting along there from the ice". In the summer there is