Golden Hinde Experience the life of a 16th century explorer abroad the Golden Hinde II, a full-sized reconstruction of the ship Sir Francis Drake used to circumnavigate the globe between 1577-80.

So it was in 1577 that a handful of the most powerful people in England sent Francis Drake out in the Golden Hind and four other ships to sail around South America into the Pacific Ocean.

The world's "roughest sea" is home to such huge waves, cruise ships fear to sail through ... and his flagship Golden Hind in 1578, Drake entered the Pacific Ocean and was blown far south in ...