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Thomas Cavendish (1560-May 1592) was an English explorer and privateer known as The Navigator because he was the first to deliberately attempt to emulate Sir Francis Drake, raiding Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and then returning by circumnavigating the globe.
Though Magellan-Elcano, Loaísa, Drake, and Loyola had all preceded him in circumnavigating the globe, Cavendish's own successful voyage, between 1586 and 1588, was the first deliberately planned circumnavigation. It made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk, and treasure from the Pacific and the Philippines, with his richest prize being the 600-ton Manila galleon Santa Ana, also called Santa Anna.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England after his return. He later set out for a second raid and circumnavigation but was not as fortunate and died at sea in 1592, at the age of 31.
Cavendish was baptized on 19 September 1560 in St Martin's Church, Trimley St Martin, Suffolk.
Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation was a voyage of raid and exploration by English navigator and sailor Thomas Cavendish which took place during the Anglo-Spanish War between 21 July 1586 and 9 September 1588.
Following in the footsteps of Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe, Thomas Cavendish was influenced in an attempt to repeat the feat. As such it was the first deliberately planned voyage of the globe.
Having set out with his three ships, the English raided three Spanish settlements and captured or burned thirteen ships. Among these was a rich 600 ton sailing ship, a Manila Galleon called Santa Ana, also called Santa Anna; the biggest treasure haul that ever fell into English hands.
With only one ship left, Cavendish returned to England on 9 September 1588 completing a full circumnavigation of the Earth in record time. The voyage itself was hugely successful and made Cavendish rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the Pacific and the Spanish Philippines.
Cavendish, at the age of twenty-eight, became the second Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. The Desire was only the third ship to circumnavigate the globe after the Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan, journey completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano, and the Golden Hind of Francis Drake. Cavendish and Drake's reconnaissance work in the East Indies had laid the foundation for further privateering to even more distant zones of conflict.
Cavendish's voyage was a huge success financially, but more importantly it was a huge propaganda coup.
Puerto Deseado in Argentina is named after Cavendish's flagship Desire. It also has a point of land at the harbour mouth which is still known as Punta Cavendish.
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