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
Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet fortune, including his Nutwell estate and his other lands, to his nephew Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield, the son of his sister Anne Pollexfen Drake and her husband, George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield. Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet (29 August 1723 – 19 February 1794) was an English Master of the Household and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of Sir Francis Drake, 4th Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1740. He was educated at Winchester School (1734-39), Eton College (1740) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1740-44. He then