The path to Whale Cove, just south of Depoe Bay, Ore., on Jan. 9, 2025. Some evidence suggests Sir Francis Drake careened his ship here in 1579. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “The boundary of New ...

A group of graduates from the former Sir Francis Drake High School has formed a nonprofit to preserve its old sports trophies and other artifacts. “We have trophies back to 1953 — football ...

A statue of Spanish Armada hero Sir Francis Drake in his home town has been given a new information panel detailing his slave trading expeditions. The monument to the Elizabethan sailor in ...

DRAKE’S drum beats bravely through the biography of Sir Francis Drake by E. F. Benson. He took with him, says his biographer, ‘on his voyage round the world, in 1577, a smart new drum.

A series of crashes has mangled a post-and-cable fence along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, presenting the county with another fix-it project along the Ross Valley artery. A similar replacement ...

“By order of Queen Elizabeth, the expedition had been cloaked in secrecy from the outset,” wrote Samuel Bawlf in The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580, including a rumor that the ...

Named after 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake, the passage connects the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. At approximately 600 miles (965 kilometers) wide, it is relatively narrow ...

On maps, the spindly arms of Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula reach out to grasp one another, separated only by the Drake Passage, which is named after Sir Francis Drake, a 16 th-Century ...

Maybe the third time will be the charm when it comes to getting the streetlights right along the Greenbrae stretch of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The second try didn’t seem to do the trick.

How a story about the 'Five Sisters of York' become a loved across the world with a message to follow your dreams - with help ...

But the Drake did have something alluring: its name. It's not known why the hotel got the name it did, but I have a theory. Sir Francis Drake was an Elizabethan admiral, explorer and (to the ...