See also:DAVIS (or DAVYS), See also:JOHN (1550 ?-16o5)
, one of the See also:chief See also:English navigators and explorers under See also:Elizabeth, especially in Polar regions, was See also:born at Sandridge near See also:Dartmouth about 1550
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From a boy he was a sailor, and See also:early made several voyages with See also:Adrian See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert; both the Gilbert and See also:Raleigh families were Devonians of his own neighbourhood, and through See also:life he seems to have profited by their friendship
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In See also:January 1583 he appears to have broached his See also:design of a See also:north-See also:west passage to See also:Walsingham and See also:John See also:Dee; various consultations followed; and in 1585 he started on his first north-western expedition
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On this he began by striking the See also:ice-See also:bound See also:east See also:shore of See also:Greenland, which he followed See also:south to Cape Farewell; thence he turned north once more and coasted the west Greenland littoral some way, till, finding the See also:sea See also:free from ice, he shaped a " course for See also:China " by the north-west
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In 66° N., however, he See also:fell in with See also:Baffin See also:Land, and though he pushed some way up See also:Cumberland See also:Sound, and professed to recognize in this the " hoped strait," he now turned back (end of See also:August)
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He tried again in x586 and 1587; in the last voyage he pushed through the straits still named after him into Baffin's See also:Bay, See also:coasting west Greenland to 73° N., almost to Upernavik, and thence making a last effort to find a passage westward along the north of See also:America
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Many points in See also:Arctic latitudes (Cumberland Sound, Cape Walsingham, See also:Exeter Sound, &c.) retain names given them by See also:Davis, who ranks with Baffin and See also:Hudson as the greatest of early Arctic explorers and, like
See also:Frobisher, narrowly missed the See also:discovery of Hudson's Bay via Hudson's Straits (the " Furious Overfall " of Davis)
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In 1588 he seems to have commanded the " See also:Black See also:Dog " against the See also:Spanish See also:Armada; in 1589 he joined the See also:earl of Cumberland off the See also:Azores; and in 1591 he accompanied See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Cavendish on his last voyage, with the See also:special purpose, as he tells us, of searching " that north-west discovery upon the back parts of America." After the See also:rest of Cavendish's expedition returned unsuccessful, he continued to See also:attempt on his own See also:account the passage of the Strait of See also:Magellan; though defeated here by foul See also:weather, he discovered the See also:Falkland Islands
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The passage See also:home was extremely disastrous, and he brought back only fourteen of his seventy-six men
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After his return in 1593 he published a valuable See also:treatise on See also:practical See also:navigation in The See also:Seaman's
Secrets (1594), and a more theoretical See also:work in The See also:World's Hydrographical Description (1595)
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His invention of back-See also:staff
and See also:double quadrant (called a " Davis Quadrant " after him) held the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field among English See also:seamen till See also:long after See also:Hadley's reflecting quadrant had been introduced
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In 1596–1597 Davis seems to have sailed with Raleigh (as See also:master of See also:Sir See also:Walter's own See also:ship) to See also:Cadiz and the Azores; and in 1598–1600 he accompanied a Dutch expedition to the East Indies as See also:pilot, sailing from See also:Flushing, returning to Middleburg, and narrowly escaping destruction from treachery at See also:Achin in See also:Sumatra
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In 1601–1603 he accompanied Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Lancaster as first pilot on his voyage in the service of the East See also:India See also:Company; and in See also:December 1604 he sailed again for the same destination A pilot to Sir See also:Edward Michelborne (or Michelbourn)
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On this See also:journey he was killed by See also:Japanese pirates off Bintang near Sumatra
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A See also:Traverse See also:Book made by John Davis in 1587, an Account of his Second Voyage in 1586, and a See also:Report of Master John Davis of his three voyages made for the Discovery of the North West Passage were printed in See also:Hakluyt's collection
.
Davis himself published The Seaman's Secrets, divided into two Parts (See also:London, 1594), The World's Hydrographical Description
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. whereby appears that there is a See also:short and speedy Passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Philippina, and India, by Northerly Navigation (London, 1595)
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Various references to Davis are in the Calendars of See also:State Papers, Domestic (1591—1594), and East Indies (1513—1616)
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See also Voyages and See also:Works of John Davis, edited by A
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See also:Markham (London, Hakluyt Society, 188o), and the See also:article " John Davys " by Sir J
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Laughton in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography
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