"Sailormen of Devon"

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 45, 20 May 1932, Page 4

"Sailormen of Devon"

N May 21, three hundred and fiftytwo years ago, there arrived at Plymouth, England, the most famous ship that ever sailed. the Seven Seas. Her name was the "Golden Hinde," and the illustrious Francis Drake wus ber commander. Three years before, on November 15, 1577, she set sail from Plymouth on the greatest voyage that was ever attempted by Englishmen. Out to the Pacific Ocean she went, thence around the Cape of Good Hope, and then Home to England, and thus the "Golden Hinde" was the first Fnglish ship, manned by English seamen, to circumnavigate the world. The 21st of May stands out as the great day in English history, as the day when England entered into her sovereignty of the sea. The great Commonwealth of Nations, now known as the British ‘Empire, had its birth with the arrival of Drake back in Wngland, for it 4was he and his men of Devon, who bioke the power of Spain, and caused eteat argosies of English ships to venture forth to all the oceans. On May 21, "Lee Fore Brace" (1YA) will com--memorate the great occasion with his story, "Sailormen of Devon.’