The WARWICK was a brig belonging to Robert Rich, the first Earl of Warwick, which brought Captain Nathaniel Butler, the new governor, and much needed supplies to Bermuda in 1619 for the Somers Island Company. A month later, while anchored in Castle Harbour, the vessel sank during a storm and apparently was quickly covered with silt, which preserved the timbers from destruction by teredo worms. Discovered in 1967, it was excavated by Teddy Tucker and Mendel Peterson, as it represented the most complete wooden hull found up to that time in the New World.
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