A few of the mistakes in the handbook include:

Concerning Bermuda's history, the opening text in the handbook says that it was not until 1593 that the first recorded landing was made by an Englishman, Henry Ray, (sic) following the shipwreck of his vessel, the Sea Venture.

Henry May was not aboard the Sea Venture, he was aboard a French ship.

The following paragraphs say that Admiral Sir George Somers was shipwrecked in 1609 and repaired his vessel and continued on his way.

The Sea Venture was not repaired. Parts of it were salvaged to help build two new ships, the Patience and the Deliverance, although due to the split of the shipwrecked colonists into two disputing factions, the Patience used only one iron bolt from the sea Venture, the rest of the salvaged materials being used to build the Deliverance.

Remnants of the Sea Venture remains on the bottom of the ocean to this day.

The Handbook says the Island's land mass is 22 square kilometres. The actual land mass is 20.5 square miles or 53.1 square kilometres.

Concerning Cahows, the handbook says: "There were once hundreds of thousands of Cahows inhabiting Bermuda which fell victim to pigs left by Portuguese sailors in the 16th century."

There is no mention of the role of man or rodents in decimating the Cahow population.