Hugh Willoughby (sea captain)

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Sir Hugh Willoughby (d. 1554) was an early British Arctic voyager. He was sent out in 1553 with three vessels by a company of London merchants on a voyage of discovery, but the vessels were separated by a storm in the North Seas, and not one of them returned, only Richard Chancellor, the captain of one of them, found his way to Moscow, and opened up a trade with Russia and this country; the ships, with the dead bodies of their crews, including Commander Willoughby, and the journal of their commander, were found by some fishermen the year after.

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• The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,and Discoveries of The English Nation, v3: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries: Part II. The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage by Hakluyt

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.