Golden Hind
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- This article is about the English ship. For the mythological creature see Golden Hind (mythology), and for the British Columbia mountain, see Golden Hinde (mountain).
The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as the Pelican, and was renamed by Drake in mid-voyage in 1577, as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan. He rechristened the ship the Golden Hind in a political gesture, to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial crest was a golden hind (in heraldry, a 'hind' is a doe).
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[edit] Replicas
A modern replica of the same ship was launched in 1973 and has travelled more than 140,000 miles (225 000 km), a distance equal to more than five times around the globe. Like the original, it circumnavigated the world. Since the 1990s it has been berthed at St Mary Overie's Dock, in Bankside, Southwark, London, close to Southwark Cathedral. There are organised visits from schools, where children can dress up as pirates, and get living history lessons about Elizabethan naval history.
A second replica is permanently moored in the innermost harbour at Brixham, Devon, and also acts as a tourist attraction.
[edit] Other modern ships of that name
For many years, a Great Lakes dry bulk carrier was named Golden Hind, in honour of the original ship. She was a steam turbine powered tanker built in Collingwood, Ontario, during 1951-1952. She sailed as the Imperial Woodbend under the Canadian flag for Imperial Oil. Transformed during the winter of 1954-1955 when Imperial's need for her ended, she was converted to a 601.50' dry bulk carrier at Port Weller, Ontario. She resumed sailing for the Mohawk Navigation Company. Carrying primarily iron ore and grain cargoes, she sailed the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway for many years until the downturn in the North American steel industry and changing patterns in the grain trade spelled her end. Laid up throughout much of the early half of the 1980s due to lack of cargoes, the veteran ore carrier was finally sold for scrap in 1986 after making a handful of trips for the Groupe Desgagnes fleet.
[edit] Details
- Masts: 3
- Hull: wooden
- Hull dimensions (estimated):
- Length: 70 ft (21.3 m)
- Breadth: 19 ft (5.8 m)
- Depth: 9 ft (2.7 m)
- Crew complement: 80–85
- Armaments: 18 guns
- Load: ca. 150 tons (150 tonnes)
[edit] See also
- Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas)
- Galleon
- Bankside for information about where the Golden Hind replica is moored
[edit] External links
- Golden Hinde museum
- Ships of the World: an historical encyclopedia: The Golden Hind
