Drimys winteri stamens. The fruit is a bluish berry. When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the "Golden Hind" at the outset, the only ship that successfully rounded Cape Horn with him was the "Elizabeth", captained by John Wynter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back. Presumably he had sickness on board, for he sent a boat ashore to search out medicinal herbs. He returned in 1579 with a supply of "Drimys" bark, and for centuries before vitamin C was isolated, "Winter's Bark" was esteemed as a preventive and remedy
TSS Sir Francis Drake (1908) broken up in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, in 1954. 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