. Historical portraits ... SIR MARTIN FROBISHER From the portrait bj* Comelis Ketelin the Bodleian Library SIR THOMAS SMITH From the portrait at Queens CollegeCambridge Fait t, 19S 199 SIR MARTIN FROBISHER id 1595) Arctic explorer, of a Yorkshire family, was probably born about1535. He is known to have been on a voyage to the Guinea Coastin 1554: he was suspected of piracy in 1566, employed by thegovernment off the Irish coast in 1572, and in 1576 started uponthe first of his famous three voyages to the Arctic regions, withthree ships, two of twenty-five and one of ten tons respectively, insea
. Historical portraits ... SIR MARTIN FROBISHER From the portrait bj* Comelis Ketelin the Bodleian Library SIR THOMAS SMITH From the portrait at Queens CollegeCambridge Fait t, 19S 199 SIR MARTIN FROBISHER id 1595) Arctic explorer, of a Yorkshire family, was probably born about1535. He is known to have been on a voyage to the Guinea Coastin 1554: he was suspected of piracy in 1566, employed by thegovernment off the Irish coast in 1572, and in 1576 started uponthe first of his famous three voyages to the Arctic regions, withthree ships, two of twenty-five and one of ten tons respectively, insearch of the North-West Passage in favour of which Sir HumphreyGilbert had written ten years before. This voyage lasted only threemonths, but the explorer believed that he had found the entrance toa great strait between America and Asia. He also believed thathe had discovered gold in the pyrite rocks. On the second voyage,in 1577, Frobisher laded his ship with two hundred tons of this rock,but, when it came to be tested, it
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