Francis Drake
English privateer
Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall. Wikipedia
Died: January 28, 1596, Portobelo, Panama
Parents: Edmund Drake and Mary Mylwaye Drake
Spouse: Elizabeth Sydenham (m. 1585–1596) and Mary Newman (m. 1569–1581)
Nationality: English
Allegiance: Kingdom of England
Books
Francis Drake and the Spanish Main
The Life of the Celebrated
2018
The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir F. Drake Into the West Indies, and Round about the World, Etc
Sir Francis Drake's Nautical Almanack 1546: This Facsimile is Taken from the Rare Copy in the Pepys Library (PL No. 1) and is Published with a Foreword by Sir Alec Rose, Kt. on the Occasion of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe : the Accompanying Explanatory Sheet is by Commander Derek Howse of The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich
The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World
A Full Relation of Another Voyage Into the West Indies: Made by Sir Francis Drake; Accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, and Others. Who Set Forth from Plimouth on the 28Th of August 1595
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