Salt and the Sea Venture by Melissa L. Gill

The shipwreck that saved America. Join Salt, a scruffy, white alley cat on his journey to the New World. Based on actual events. in 1609, the passengers of the Sea Venture were sent to resupply the starving colonists of Jamestown. But they must survive the tempest that wrecks their ship to make it to the New World in time.