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.

Yes, California has embraced the legacy of Drake with many place names, including the famous Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Queen Elizabeth II even attended the 400th anniversary of the ...

More than 400 years ago, Sir Francis Drake became the first British explorer to make contact with Native Americans on what is now the American West Coast. The question is where? Oregon or California?

Marin County’s claim to Sir Francis Drake’s famous landfall in 1579 is being called into question in a new book that asserts the English seafarer landed in Oregon. Debate about whether Drake ...

The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, the Union Square icon that opened in 1928, will become the Beacon Grand. The news was first reported by the San Francisco Business Times. The 21-story, 416-room hotel ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The iconic Sir Francis Drake Hotel opened in 1928 and now 94 years later it's changing from the inside out. Starting with its controversial name. "His name doesn't have to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel will be called The Beacon Grand when it is set to reopen this spring. It the latest attempt in the Bay Area to rename streets and ...

"Drake was the kind of pirate who looted, raped and kidnapped people and enslaved them," explained Ovetz. He said keeping the name Sir Francis Drake glorifies the ancient pirate and slave trader.