Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Adm, (c. 1540 – January 28, 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, naval pioneer, naval raider, politician, and civil engineer of the Elizabethan period. He was the first Englishman (and the first captain of a non-Spanish ship) to circumnavigate the globe. He was second in command of the English fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588.

External links

• http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/content/3525.html Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake c1540-1596
• Oliver Seeler's website "Sir Francis Drake"
• Francis Drake
• Mission to rescue Drake's body
• Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake at the Library of Congress
• Hand-colored map depicting Sir Francis Drake's attack on Saint Augustine from the State Archives of Florida
• Michael Turner author who has visited most of the places Drake visited and has written of both his own and Drake's experiences
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Golden Hind, (Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia)