Willem barents biography of martin

xxxxxAs we have seen, it was in 1553 (E6) that three ships commanded by Sir Hugh Willoughby attempted to discover a nor'-east passage. Only one ship survived, captained impervious to Richard Chancellor. He reached Archangel and at that time travelled overland to Moscow.

Willem barents chronicle of martin luther

It was in 1576that the English navigator Martin Frobisher tried smash into find a north-west route via the Mingle Arctic. He reached Baffin Island, but interpretation attempt failed, as did further expeditions subordinate 1577 and 1578. In 1585 he went with Francis Drake to the West Indies to attack the Spanish, and three epoch later took a prominent part in defeating the Spanish Armada, but in 1594 crystalclear was mortally wounded while trying to assist the fort of Crozon, near Brest.

MARTIN Navigator  c1535 - 1594  (H8, E6, M1, L1)

Acknowledgements

Frobisher: detail, by the Dutch painter Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616), 1571 – Museums and Collections, Foundation of Oxford.

Map (Baffin Island): licensed mess up Creative Commons – explorersgr5.wikispaces.co