Some evidence suggests Sir Francis Drake careened his ship here in 1579. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “The boundary of New Spain was right around San Francisco.

A 1583 portrait of Sir Francis Drake Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Francis Drake and 164 men aboard five ships left Plymouth, England, quietly on December 13, 1577. Few knew that the Pelican ...

Historians disagree about the exact location of Francis Drake's ... Francis Drake's real landing location on his famous voyage of circumnavigating the world between 1577 and 1580 on his ship, ...

That is the 450th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake anchoring his ship, the Golden Hind, for a few weeks at the Marin coastline in 1579. The exhibit will include a 7-by-13-foot mural of Drake’s ...

Mar. 23—A group of graduates from the former Sir Francis Drake High School has formed a nonprofit to preserve its old sports trophies and other artifacts. "We have trophies back to 1953 ...

Sir Francis is renowned for circumnavigating the world in a single expedition on his ship the Golden Hind from 1577 to 1580 and for defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Though the U.S. Navy isn't floating around in wooden ships, ... or as fireships that helped Sir Francis Drake win against the Spanish Armada in 1588. Its curse, however, ...