Golden Hind
Circumnavigation ship, 1580
The Golden Hind was the ship in which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577 to 1580, the first Englishman to do so.
Originally named Pelican, Drake renamed it mid-voyage to honor his patron, whose coat of arms featured a golden hind—a female deer.
The name evokes Elizabethan maritime adventure and English naval ambition.
- Sir Francis DrakeTudor sea captain, explorer
- DrakeAdult male duck
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- tall shipLarge traditional sailing vessel
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
circumnavigation · Age of Exploration · Elizabethan · pirate · treasure · treasure fleet · Spanish · plunder · voyage · sails · Tudor · England · Queen Elizabeth · buccaneer · Spanish Main · privateer · seafaring · expedition
- Famous ShipsTitanic, RMS Titanic, Mayflower, Bismarck, Lusitania
- shipsship, vessel, freighter, tanker, cargo ship
- sailing shipsclipper ship, schooner, galleon, brig, brigantine
- Tudor explorationSir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Cabot, Roanoke, sea dogs
- warshipsbattleship, turret, frigates, battleships, destroyers
- sea voyagesvoyage, sea voyages, crossing, ocean voyages, sea voyage
Golden Hindman-of-war
Armed sailing vessel
warship · ship of the line · HMS Victory · HMS Dreadnought · battleship
golden, hind, gold, gild, gilded, gilding, gilder, goldsmith, golden-haired