Francis Drake is Drakes Bay, California. Drake left the Pacific coast, heading southwest to catch the winds that would carry his ship across the Pacific, and a few months later reached the Moluccas, a group of islands in the western Pacific, in eastern modern-day Indonesia. While there, "Golden Hind" became caught on a reef and was almost lost. After the sailors waited three days for convenient tides and had dumped cargo, they freed the barque. Befriending a sultan king of the Moluccas, Drake and his men became involved in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. He made multiple stops on his way
TSS Sir Francis Drake (1908) TSS Sir Francis Drake (1908) TSS "Sir Francis Drake" was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908. TSS "Sir Francis Drake" was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS "Sir Walter Raleigh". She operated as a tender in Plymouth for 46 years and also sometimes at Fishguard. She was hired to the Admiralty as a tug from 1914 to 1919. In August 1939 she was again hired to the Admiralty for use at Plymouth and later at Scapa Flow, returning to the GWR at Plymouth in 1946. She was