Alonso's Ship
The Tempest
by
William Shakespeare
 

Act 1 Scene 2
PROSPERO
Of the King's ship,
The mariners, say how thou hast dispos'd,
And all the rest o' th' fleet?

ARIEL
Safely in harbour
Is the King's ship; in the deep nook, where once
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid;
The mariners all under hatches stowed,
Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
I have left asleep; and for the rest o' th' fleet,
Which I dispers'd, they all have met again,
And are upon the Mediterranean flote
Bound sadly home for Naples,
Supposing that they saw the King's ship wreck'd,
And his great person perish.
The word Bermoothes could be Bermuda, but it has also been suggested that Shakespeare may have been referring to an area of Elizabethan London known as the Bermudas. (see Dave Kathman - 'Dating the Tempest')
and later in ....
Act 5 scene 1
BOATSWAIN
The best news is, that we have safely found
Our king and company; the next, our ship-
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split-
Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
We first put out to sea.