It is generally assumed that this incident furnished timber for the framework of The Tempest.
The storm that broke on St.James's Day, scattering the ships of the third supply, drove the Sea Adventure here and there at will.

Upon her watched Gates and Somers and Newport, above a hundred men, and a few women and children.

There sprang a leak; all thought of death.

Then rose a cry "Land ho!" The storm abated, but the wind carried the Sea Adventure upon this shore and grounded her upon a reef.

A certain R.
Rich, gentleman, one of the voyagers, made and published a ballad upon the whole event.