Golden Hinde

Golden Hind is a galleon on which Francis Drake traveled around the world in 1577–1580. The three-masted wooden ship has a length of 21.3 m, width 5.8 m and displacement of 150 tons, which allowed him to take on board even an 85-man crew, 18 cannons and gunpowder, bullets, food and equipment necessary for many months of sea voyages.

Pelican, because it was originally called the Golden Doe, was launched in 1576 at the port of Plymouth. Just before sailing around the world, the ship received a new name in honor of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England, sponsor and friend of Drake, who had a golden doe in his coat of arms. Golden Hind is the only one of the five units to be back from a trip. Drake, who was formerly a privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth, was knighted.

Golden Hind was moored at the port of Deptford (now a suburb of London) to commemorate Drake's great accomplishments. Decades later, the ship's hull fell apart, and remnants of oak plating were made into commemorative armchairs for the Bodleian Library - one of the libraries at Oxford University. The modern replica of the ship dates from 1973 and is a fully functional sailing ship that sailed 140,000 nautical miles and traveled around the world. It was exposed to dry land in the 1990s. The older, from 1963, replica of the Golden Hind is located in the Brixham seaport in Devon.