Its only surviving fragment was made into a chair for the Great Hall of Buckland Abbey in Devon.
Its only surviving fragment was made into a chair for the Great Hall of Buckland Abbey in Devon. Its official mission was to "find out places meet to have traffic;" in pursuit of that goal, it led a fleet including the Swan, Marigold, and Benedict. After negotiating with the Sultan of Termate, it took on six tons of cloves. Earlier, it spent one winter at San Francisco, where its crew founded the colony of New Albion, and looked for the Northwest Passage to the west of Vancouver. An alleged mutiny against its captain by Thomas Doughty led to Doughty's execution before it reached Brazil in 1578, and it soon encountered the Cacafuego at Valparaiso and took eighty pounds of gold. While it sat moored in Deptford, Elizabeth boarded this ship and knighted its captain. FTP, name this flagship of the exploration and piracy campaign of Francis Drake.
Its only surviving fragment was made into a chair for the Great Hall of Buckland Abbey in Devon.
the Golden Hind [accept The Pelican before it is read]