They were all damaged by the same hurricane and forced to jettison much needed cargo. The Catch was the only one to be lost at sea, with the death of the entire crew. Admiral Sir George Somers, Governor Sir Thomas Gates and their companions including John Rolfe, all presumed dead by those in Virginia, remained in Bermuda for ten months. Their first Christmas was much warmer than in England or Virginia. William Strachey, their scribe, kept a diary and also recorded how the colonists built the first St. Peter's Church out of Palmetto and cedar and thatched it with palmetto; and attached the bell of the wrecked Sea Venture. Virginia Bernhard wrote "Sir George supervised the building of the thirty ton pinnace Patience while the eighty ton barque Deliverance was done by Sir Thomas Gates, both from spars and rigging of the wrecked Sea Venture." Somers commanded the two vessels when they sailed to Virginia in May 1610, with 142 castaways, after forty-two weeks in Bermuda. Ten days later they arrived in Jamestown, they found the colonists in great distress, with only sixty survivors. Fortunately, Sir George had provisioned his ships with enough food to buy a little time for the Jamestown Colony. Virginia suffered from disease, famine, and periodic attacks from hostile Indians. With their lack of food, they decided to abandon their colony. Without the large stock of fresh foods and animals brought by Sir George and his companions from the Somers Isles, Virginia would have been wiped out. The arrival of the Deliverance and Patience in 1610 was Virginia's first Thanksgiving. .
Food on the two Bermuda built ships included wild hogs found on Bermuda. They had been left there by much earlier sailors before they sailed away again, or put overboard nearby by passing ships, to swim ashore, breed and become a ready supply of food in case of emergency. They were the first pigs found in the New World by English speaking colonists.