what ship did sir francis drake travel on?
Golden Hind
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 Sir Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth on 15 November 1577 , in command of a fleet of five ships under his flagship Pelican , later renamed the Golden Hinde . His principal objective was plunder , not exploration ; his initial targets were the unfortified Spanish towns on the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru . Following Magellan 's route , Drake reached Puerto San Julian on 20 June . After nearly two months in harbour , Drake left the port with a reduced fleet of three ships and a small pinnace . His ships entered the Magellan Strait on 23 August and emerged in the Pacific Ocean on 6 September . 

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 This navigation plan was abandoned when both Prince of Wales and Borrowdale lost sight of Alexander and Friendship during a severe storm in late July , and found themselves alone and off course by the time the weather cleared . The two lost ships anchored while their masters , John Mason in Prince of Wales and Hobson Reed in Borrowdale , consulted . Neither considered it likely they could reach the Lord Howe Island rendezvous . They were also reluctant to hazard the voyage to Batavia through the Great Barrier Reef without Alexander in the lead . Instead , they agreed to turn their ships southeast into the open ocean and to return to England by sailing the other way around the world , via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro and then northeast across the Atlantic to Europe . 

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 From 1499 to 1508 a number of other expeditions were launched from Bristol to the ' New found land ' , the earliest being undertaken by William Weston . One of these , led by John Cabot 's son , Sebastian Cabot , explored down the coast of North America until he was ‘ almost in the latitude of Gibraltar ’ and ‘ almost the longitude of Cuba ’ . This would suggest that he reached as far as the Chesapeake , close to what is now Washington D.C. 

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 Drake set a course to the north @-@ west , but on the following day a gale scattered the ships . The Marigold was sunk by a giant wave ; the Elizabeth managed to return into the Magellan Strait , later sailing eastwards back to England ; the pinnace was lost later . The gales persisted for more than seven weeks . The Golden Hinde was driven far to the west and south , before clawing its way back towards land . On 22 October , the ship anchored off an island which Drake named " Elizabeth Island " , where wood for the galley fires was collected and seals and penguins captured for food . 

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 Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577 – 1580 circumnavigation of the world ; as Ubaldini reported , " [ h ] e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake " . A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe , explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland , concluded : 
