Isle of Devils

Englishman Samuel Silas Jordan was on his way to the Jamestown Colony when a hurricane blew his ship, The Sea Venture, to the Isle of Devils!

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” may have been based on this event.

The coat of arms for the Bermuda Company (a version of which was adopted as the country's official coat of arms in 1910). A red lion holds the scene of the wreck in his paws beneath the Latin inscription Quo fata Ferunt, or "whither the Fates carry [us]." That phrase, taken from Virgil's Aeneid, would become the official motto for Bermuda.