Repairs have started on the replica of Sir Francis Drake's warship in preparation for it to join the Diamond Jubilee River Thames flotilla. The Golden Hinde, docked in south-east London, has not been ...

A convoluted tale involving a forged metal marker and a prank on a professor upended everything the public thought they knew about the British privateer’s Marin County landing. All regions, counties, ...

Sir Francis Drake, in his last night in London before sailing, in 1595, to his death in the Western Caribbean, talks with a shipmate of his voyage of circumnavigation. 1577 to 1580, when he refitted ...

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the ...

Sir Francis Drake left his name in California on a bay not far from San Francisco. He also left a legacy that can be strange to people who come from a democracy that believe that rules and laws are ...