John Smith (explorer)
In a May 1609 voyage to Virginia, Sir Thomas Smith, Virginia Company treasurer, arranged for about 500 colonists, including women and children to come along. A fleet of nine ships set sail. One sank in a storm soon after leaving the harbor.  The Sea Venture was shipwrecked on the Bermuda islands with the admiral and Stephen Hopkins on board.  One year later, in May 1610, they had arrived at Jamestown in small boats they had made.  Gates soon found that there was not enough food to support all in the colony and decided to abandon Jamestown. As their boats were leaving the Jamestown area, they met a ship carrying the new governor, Lord De la Warr, who ordered them back to Jamestown.