Golden Hinde (mountain) The mountain took its name from Sir Francis Drake's ship, the "Golden Hind", by an early fur-trading captain, who was reminded of Drake's ship as sunset hit the mountain (which is visible from the west coast of the Island) and in honour of Drake's reputed presence off the coast of the future British Columbia during the explorer's circumnavigation of the globe from 1577–80 (see New Albion). The present name was not officially conferred until 1938, but this was done after a reference to the peak in a fur-trader's log. The alternative name "The Rooster's Comb" was used by early alpinists
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