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
Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642–1718) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1700. Drake was the son of Thomas Drake and his wife Susan Crimes, daughter of William Crimes, of Buckland Crimes and was baptised on 1 May 1642, at Buckland. His father, who was son of Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet, was a major of horse in the Parliamentary army. Drake succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet on 6 June 1661. He matriculated at