![]() ![]() According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were on the James, the following was recorded ![]() As they approached New England, an unusually powerful early season hurricane struck, known as the "Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635", and the James and the Angel Gabriel were forced to ride it out just off the coast of modern-day Hampton, New Hampshire. The sinking occurred during the middle of the Great Migration.įrom England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined the James, the Elizabeth (Bess), the Mary and the Diligence. She sank in a storm off Pemaquid Point, near the newly established town of Bristol, Maine, on August 15, 1635. ![]() She was commissioned for Sir Walter Raleigh's last expedition to America in 1617. The Angel Gabriel was a 240 ton English passenger galleon. ![]()
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