Galeon the Golden Hind (1575 g) 1:75
Album description
Frances Drake, in a small English galleon, "Golden Hind" rounded the globe between 1577 and 1580 for about 2 years, 10 months and 11 days. But at first the name of the ship was Pelican. With a length of 36.5 meters, the width was 6.7 meters, the cargo capacity was 150 tons. Nose aboard 22 guns. Accompanied by five more ships, Francis Drake went to Plymouth. Through the storm in the Pacific Ocean, Pelican stayed alone and went off to attack the Portuguese and Spanish ships, plundering the harbor of Spanish colonists on the west coast of America. From the city of Peru, he began hunting a Spanish squadron from several large and well-armed ships. For several days, the Spaniards pursued the captives, but one morning the sails became barely visible and then disappeared completely. In memory of these events in June 1578, during a naval campaign, Drake gave a new name to his "Pelican" ship and called it "Golden Hind", the name symbolized a figure of a grass which was cast out of pure gold and set in the end of the body-ram, under the bush break. Escaping from the Spaniards and not having a return journey, he passed from the coast of Peru to Canada, across the Pacific Ocean to the Mariana Islands, from the island of Java through the entire Indian Ocean, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, then along the entire western coast of Africa, returned to Plymouth. He gained the glory of the great sailor and renowned pirate whose campaign brought 4700% of net profits, and he brought potato tubers to Europe. Numerous adventures experienced by the participants of this expedition became a legend. The chair from the boards of his deck has been donated to Oxford University by king Charles II. It still stands there. Scale model 1:75