El Dorado he was taken to the golden city in blindfold, was entertained by the natives, and then left the city and couldn't remember how to return. Raleigh had set many goals for his expedition, and believed he had a genuine chance at finding the so-called city of gold. First, he wanted to find the mythical city of El Dorado, which he suspected to be an actual Indian city named Manõa. Second, he hoped to establish an English presence in the Southern Hemisphere that could compete with that of the Spanish. His third goal was to create an English settlement in the
USS Dorado (SS-248) book entitled "USS DORADO (SS-248): On Eternal Patrol" was published by Douglas E. Campbell in November 2011. Before she was lost, the American painter Thomas Hart Benton sailed aboard Dorado on its shakedown cruise, using that experience as the basis for his paintings "Score Another for the Subs, In Slumber Deep," and "The Claustrophobic Confines" "Dorado" was only one of only two U.S. Navy submarines lost in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The other was the USS "R-12" which sank during a training dive near Key West, Florida. USS Dorado (SS-248) USS "Dorado" (SS-248), a "Gato"-class submarine, was