In March of this year Clearwater Middle School M2 children were learning about the Deliverance and the Patience. We learned that Deliverance was completed at Builder's Bay in St. George 400 years ago in March 1610.

We also learned that Deliverance and the Patience were built by survivors of the Sea Venture shipwreck and that they sailed on Deliverance and Patience to Jamestown, Virginia, a voyage which took ten days.

When we knew we were going over to the place where Deliverance was built, our custodians drew out an outline of Deliverance in our schoolyard and we all went and stood in the outline to show how small the boat was to take so many passengers.

We rode the bus to St. George to do our Social Studies Project and we went to St. Peter's Church to learn about the people from Sea Venture and to find the part of the Church where the slaves sat at the other end. Then we visited the museums in St. George.

After eating our lunch in Somers Gardens, we walked up to Builder's Bay where Deliverance was built. John Barritt & Son kindly provided nice cool drinks for us!

Once again, the outline of Deliverance was right there in the sand, so we knew exactly where to stand. There were 70 of us altogether including our teachers. We stood in the exact spot, in the exact shape in the exact month of her launch – 400 years later!

Deliverance was 40ft long and 19ft wide. She carried almost 100 people to Jamestown.

We really walked in the footsteps of History that day!