Golden Hind Golden Hind Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for her privateering circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as "Pelican", but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden 'hind' (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's world voyage. One full-sized, still sailable reconstruction containing original pieces of the galleon exists in London, on the south bank of the Thames. Queen Elizabeth I partly sponsored Sir Francis Drake as the
Francis Samuel Drake (historian) taste for historical work, and was an eager collector long before he wrote anything for publication. He edited Henry Schoolcraft's "History of the Indians", and contributed articles on Brighton, Watertown, and Roxbury to the Justin Winsor's "Memorial History of Boston" (1880–82). His "Dictionary of American Biography", with his latest corrections and all the materials that he had gathered for a new edition, was incorporated in "Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography". Francis Samuel Drake (historian) Francis Samuel Drake (February 22, 1828, Northwood, New Hampshire - February 22, 1885, Washington, D.C.) was a United States historian. His "Dictionary of American Biography" was