A 1583 portrait of Sir Francis Drake Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Francis Drake and 164 men aboard five ships left Plymouth, England, quietly on December 13, 1577. Few knew that the Pelican ...

Sir Francis Drake was born around 1540 in the southern part of England and had 12 brothers. ... Their journey then took them all the way up the coasts of South and North America, ...

The Hondius map of 1589 inset depicts Drake's encampment at New Albion, Portus Novas Albionis. Wikicommons. Few sea voyages are as famous as that of the Golden Hind, privateer Francis Drake’s ...

DRAKE’S drum beats bravely through the biography of Sir Francis Drake by E. F. Benson. He took with him, says his biographer, ‘on his voyage round the world, in 1577, a smart new drum. When he ...

Bawlf’s 2003 book, The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake, has sold more than 20,000 copies and still sells about a thousand copies a year, according to his publisher.

Some evidence suggests Sir Francis Drake careened his ship here in 1579. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “The boundary of New Spain was right around San Francisco.