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Replica of the Elizabethan galleon, The Golden Hind, captained by Francis Drake in 16th Century, Southwark, London, UK

On This Day In History: Sir Francis Drake Sets Sail On His Round-The-World Voyage – On Dec 13, 1577

AncientPages.com | December 13, 2016

AncientPages.com - On December 13, 1577, Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth with a five-ship flotilla on the dangerous path that killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan 50 years earlier.