Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
English ship St Andrew (1622) English ship St Andrew (1622) St Andrew was a 42-gun great ship of the English Royal Navy (subsequently second rate), built by Andrew Burrell at Deptford and launched in 1622. She was known as "Andrew" during the Commonwealth. During the English Civil War, the Andrew was involved in fighting against the last Royalist holdouts in Cornwall. In a letter dated June 30, 1646, ship's Parliamentary commander, a man named William Batten, wrote to his superior Sir, I believe the castle of Pendennis will not be long out of our hands; a dogger boat with four guns I have taken, whereof