Plymouth has a long and rich naval history. It is celebrated as where Sir Francis Drake played bowls as the Spanish Armada ...

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When someone mentions pirates, images of peg legs, parrots, grand pirate ships, and buried treasure permeate our minds. Embellished stories of seafaring rogues offer a romanticized version of lives ...

One of the most tragic shipwrecks on the Washington coast hit Nov. 4, 1875. The Pacific left Victoria, B.C. in the morning ...

This lovely circular walk evokes the fascinating history of Woodbridge and the River Deben, and has wonderful views of the estuary and its ...

One of the city’s oldest and most famous pubs, The Ship Inn, is rumoured to have been visited by the likes of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh. The Ship was revamped in 2015 with new ...

anyone was ever allowed to sit in Drake’s chair for luck (made from the timbers of Sir Francis Drake’s ship and given to the library in 1662). We found more comfortable seats in another garden, at ...

In 1580 Francis Drake becomes the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh sets ... and Philip launches a great fleet of ships, known as the Spanish Armada.

The team also visited the Golden Hinde, a replica of the ship Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world, and HMS Belfast, the warship turned floating museum. Running one of Mercy Ships’ two ...