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Sir Martin Frobisher (/ ˈ f r oʊ b ɪ ʃ ər /; c. 1535/1539 – 22 November 1594 [1]) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage.
Sir Martin Frobisher, assumed to be the subject of this portrait, took command of the fleet when Sir Walter Raleigh was recalled. The fleet sailed further south, and by the end of May encountered the Santa Clara, an armed, 600-ton Spanish galleon, just off Cape St. Vincent. The English captured the ship after heavy resistance, taking whatever ...
Plaque commemorating Sir Martin Frobisher, explorer and sea Captain. Bust of John Speed, map maker and historian. Statue of John Milton by Horace Montford [15] The organ. From St. Luke's, Old Street [16] Bust of Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe" and John Milton. Busts of Oliver Cromwell and John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress".
Bus island, central on the map on a 1786 Dutch map [1]. Bus, Buss, or Busse Island was a phantom island in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was recorded as discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the ship Emanuel of Bridgwater (a "busse") and was indicated on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland at about 57° N.
English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher was the first European to report entering the strait, in 1578. He named a tidal rip at the entrance the Furious Overfall and called the strait Mistaken Strait, since he felt it held less promise as an entrance to the Northwest Passage than the body of water that was later named Frobisher Bay.
A year later his patents were renewed in the name of his half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh. [1] Late 1570s. Martin Frobisher, licensed by Elizabeth I and backed by a group of merchant adventurers, sought gold in the New World and a Northwest Passage to the Orient.
Sir Martin Frobisher was a seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the Northwest Passage. As a privateer, he plundered riches from French ships. He was knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Kalicho was the name assigned to an Inuk man from the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island (now in Nunavut Canada). He was brought back to England as a captive by Sir Martin Frobisher in 1577. He was taken along with an unrelated Inuk woman and her infant, who were named by the English as Arnaq and Nutaaq.