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  2. The Navigators (organization) - Wikipedia

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    The Navigators was founded in 1933 by the evangelist Dawson Trotman, who mentored United States Navy sailor Lester Spencer aboard USS West Virginia. Due to those efforts, 135 additional sailors on Spencer's ship became Christians before it was sunk at Pearl Harbor .

  3. Dawson Trotman - Wikipedia

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    Trotman founded the Navigators in 1933. [2] He lost his life on June 18, 1956, aged 50, while rescuing a girl, Allene Beck, from drowning during water-skiing in Schroon Lake, New York. [3] [4] Trotman worked with many other evangelicals of his day, including Henrietta Mears, Jim Rayburn, Charles E. Fuller, Bill Bright, Billy Graham, and Dick ...

  4. Raymond Aker - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Aker (March 10, 1920 – January 4, 2003) was a U.S. historian who was noted as an authority on the voyages of Francis Drake in the late 16th century. Aker served as president of the Drake Navigators Guild in California, which promotes Drake and his explorations.

  5. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    An early example of such systematic criteria is found in Duarte Pacheco Pereira, navigator, military commander and learned writer of ‘Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis’ (1505-1508), where he reports his and other's exploration of the African coast and of the open seas of the south Atlantic: In the 'Esmeraldo's introduction:

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  8. Drake Navigators Guild - Wikipedia

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    This is a bronze mortar from the Episcopal Church in Novato, California. The so-called “Drake’s Cup” is a bronze mortar with the date 1570 inscribed in it. The mortar hung in a Marin County, California church for many years and was called “Drake’s Cup” for decades. In the early 1970s, the mortar was researched extensively by the Guild.

  9. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...