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Golden Hind


 

:This article is about the British ship. For the mythological creature see Golden Hind (mythology).

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The Golden Hind was a ship best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. It was originally known as the Pelican and was renamed in mid-voyage 1577 by Drake as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan. He rechristened the ship the Golden Hind in a politic gesture, to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial crest was a golden hind (in heraldry a "hind" is a doe).

Related Topics:
1577 - 1580 - Francis Drake - Straits of Magellan - Christopher Hatton - Heraldry - Doe

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