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The Sea Dogs were a group of English privateers and explorers authorised by Queen Elizabeth I to raid England's enemies, whether they were formally at war with them or not. Active from 1560 until Elizabeth's death in 1603, the Sea Dogs primarily attacked Spanish targets both on land and at sea, particularly during the Anglo-Spanish War .
Elizabethan Sea Dogs, English adventurers of the Elizabethan era; Sea Dog, a pseudonym used at one point in Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (1963) Places
He was born near Plymouth and was a member of the lesser gentry but he became one of the owners of the Merchants house [1] & in 1601 became Lord Mayor of Plymouth before becoming a privateer (and so-called Elizabethan sea dogs) in the services of Queen Elizabeth I (the Great) (1533-1603, reigned 1558-1603).
Golden Hind was a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. She was originally known as Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden hind (a female red deer).
John Davis (1550–1605), Sea Dog, explorer and navigator; Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), explorer in the Middle East; Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596) Sir Ranulph Fiennes (born 1944), listed as the "greatest living explorer" by the Guinness Book of Records; Martin Frobisher (1535–1594), navigator, one of the Elizabethan Sea Dogs
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It is alleged that each of these men studied science, philosophy, and religion, and all were suspected of atheism.Atheism at that time was a charge nearly the equivalent of treason, since the English monarch after Henry VIII's reforms was the head of the Church of England, and to be against the church was, ipso facto, to be against the monarch.