Francis Drake

Plymouth, a seaport and the biggest town in the south of England, is where Francis Drake, one of the most well-known English sailors and pirates, was born.

The boy talked to the servicemen and spent a lot of time observing the ships in Plymouth Harbor. He was sent aboard a tiny ship when he was fifteen and worked there for a while. The child quickly picked up the responsibilities of a sailor and performed them so well that some claimed he was born to be one. Drake was appointed a captain's mate when he was twenty-five, and a ship's captain soon after. At that period, sea fights between Spanish and English ships were frequent. In the past, Spanish ships in the Atlantic Ocean attacked a tiny fleet of six English ships. Only two of the English ships survived the fires-Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the globe in one of the other two. Francis Drake made a name for himself in the English Channel sea fight against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

In 1595, seven years after defeating the Spanish Armada, Drake sailed from Plymouth at the head of a sizable fleet once more to battle the Spaniards in America and the West Indies. In one month, Drake crossed the Atlantic, but not long after that, he became unwell. He passed away in January 1596 and was interred in the water. In Plymouth, there is a monument honoring Francis Drake.