who did walter raleigh sail for?
England
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 Raleigh appointed Burrough as his vice @-@ admiral and was joined in commission with Frobisher , who had knowledge of maritime affairs . George Clifford , the Earl of Cumberland had the largest stake in the expedition and helped Raleigh to finance and gather the fleet . The majority of the fleet were owned by investors ; the ship Dainty for example was owned by John Hawkins , but was captained by John Norton . The fleet included notables such as William Monson , Robert Crosse , captain of the Foresight , Samuel Purchas , Richard Hawkins and Christopher Newport , captain of the Golden Dragon . 

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 By virtue of the Iberian Union that joined the crowns of Portugal and Spain in 1580 , the Anglo @-@ Portuguese Treaty of 1373 had fallen in abeyance . As the Anglo – Spanish War was ongoing , Portuguese shipping was a fair target for the Royal Navy . Sir Walter Raleigh , having only just been released from the Tower of London , received a commission from Queen Elizabeth I for an expedition to the West Indies . He outfitted a sixteen ship naval squadron of which two , the Garland and Foresight belonged to the Queen . 

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 While in prison , George Orsborne lent his name to a ghost @-@ written account of the Girl Pat adventure , which repeated the claim that the vessel had been sent out inadequately equipped and provisioned . Marstrand 's successfully sued the publishers , Hutchinsons , and two newspapers which had repeated the details . On his release , Orsborne planned to make a single @-@ handed transatlantic crossing in an open boat , but the trip was delayed , and finally cancelled when war began in September 1939 . Likewise , nothing came of an announcement in 1938 that Orsborne would lead an expedition to the Caribbean and up the Amazon . 

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 Beginning in August 1591 , Hues joined Cavendish on another attempt to circumnavigate the globe . Sailing on the Leicester , they were accompanied by the explorer John Davis on the Desire . Cavendish and Davis agreed that they would part company once they had cleared the Strait of Magellan between Chile and Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego , as Davis intended to sail to America to search for the Northwest Passage . The expedition was ultimately unsuccessful , although Davis did discover the Falkland Islands . In the meantime , delayed in small harbours in the Strait with crew members dying from the cold , illness and starvation , Cavendish turned back eastwards to return to England . He was plagued by mutinous crewmen , and also by natives and Portuguese who attacked his sailors seeking food and water on shore . Increasingly depressed , Cavendish died in 1592 somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean , possibly a suicide . 

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 King 's intention to sail around the world was overtaken by the institution in March 1968 of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race . Aged 58 , King became the oldest participant in what was the first organised round the world solo yacht race . In Deep Water , King explained that he joined the race as a means of recovering psychologically from fifteen years of service in submarines . This , he said , had left him " a nervous wreck " . He had planned to sail around the world before he heard of the race , which " sort of caught up with me . " An aunt 's legacy provided him with the means to finance the boat . 
