Every British schoolchild knows that Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe on the Golden Hind. Fewer are aware that when he set out on the voyage in 1577, the ship was called the A 1577 ...

Francis Drake and 164 men aboard five ships left Plymouth, England, quietly on December 13, 1577. Few knew that the Pelican, the Elizabeth, the Marigold, the Swan and the Benedict were commencing ...

Renaming his ship the Golden Hind ... the gaudy Beefeater uniforms worn by the doormen at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, and the enduring local fascination with the unlikeliest of Bay Area tourists.

Last week the internet was abuzz with news that Pat Croce was manning a team of divers in search of the body of Sir Francis Drake ... his team found both of Drake’s ships off the coast of ...

Francis Drake neither sailed into San Francisco Bay ... He spent a month somewhere in California (or maybe Oregon) repairing his ship before crossing the Pacific. Californians named things after ...

or as fireships that helped Sir Francis Drake win against the Spanish Armada in 1588. Its curse, however, is that wooden ships were tinder boxes waiting to go up. Being made of dried wood and ...