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purchased her in 1805 in the East Indies. The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Sir Francis Drake and used her as a frigate. She served in the Java campaign of 1811...

Heathcote and Sir Francis Henry Drake. This line of Drakes descended from the brother of Elizabethan naval hero Sir Francis Drake. Francis William is often...

Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) was an Elizabethan privateer and naval hero. Francis Drake may also refer to: Francis Drake (died 1634) (1573–1634), MP...

captain. He returned to England in 1813 commanding the frigate HMS Sir Francis Drake and had no further service. Peachey became Baron Selsey upon the...

Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition...

Elizabethan naval hero Sir Francis Drake. He served for a time as lieutenant aboard the 44-gun HMS Torrington and the 60-gun HMS Windsor. He was promoted...

named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake: HMS Drake (1653) was a 16-gun sixth rate launched in 1653 and sold in 1691. HMS Drake (1694)...

coastline before and during the expedition. On 23 May 1811 a party from HMS Sir Francis Drake attacked a flotilla of fourteen Dutch gun vessels off Surabaya,...

protected by 12 inches (305 mm) of armour. HMS Drake, named after the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake, was laid down at Pembroke Dock on 24 April...

1806 Captain James Haldane Tait took command of Grampus, leaving HMS Sir Francis Drake, while Grampus was employed in India. Later she was stationed at...

was captured by the Spanish. In response, along with his cousin Sir Francis Drake, he raised a fleet of ships to attack the Spanish in the West Indies...

home station, successively HMS Tiber, HMS Madagascar, and HMS Maeander, and in the 32-gun HMS Sir Francis Drake, flagship of Sir Charles Hamilton on the...

returned to the Far East trade and her ultimate fate is unknown. HMS Sir Francis Drake was Asia, of 735 tons (bm), which was launched at Bombay in 1797...

Drake's Drum is a snare drum that Sir Francis Drake took with him when he circumnavigated the world. Shortly before he died he ordered the drum to be...

has earned a place in maritime history not only by virtue of being Sir Francis Drake's most famous prize, but also because of her colourful nickname, Cagafuego...

she served the British Royal Navy as a fifth rate and storeship HMS Sir Francis Drake until 1825. Blythe Bros., London, purchased her and sailed her between...

Admiral Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman GCB, GCVO (born Bridgeman-Simpson, 7 December 1848 – 17 February 1929) was a Royal Navy officer. As a...

were first commissioned as HMS Vivid, before being renamed HMS Drake in 1934. Since the early 21st century the name HMS Drake (and its command structure)...

sloop HMS Hesper in which he participated in the attack on Java and was promoted to post captain as a reward, taking over HMS Sir Francis Drake. The Admiralty...

ship Swann (1572) was a vessel sailing with Sir Francis Drake in 1572. English ship Swann (1577) was a flyboat sailing with Drake in 1577. She was lost in 1578. English...