The 1601 East India Company Voyage was the first ever voyage by the newly formed English East India Company and took place between February 1601 to August 1603 during the latter stage of the Anglo-Spa
Print from Floris Balthasar showing the Anglo-Dutch capture of the Portuguese carrack São Antonio in the Malacca Straits
Veteran explorer James Lancaster who commanded the first East India Company voyage.
Lancaster's flagship "Red Dragon"
Illustration of the 'First fleet of the East India Company leaving Woolwich, 1601'
Red Dragon (ship)
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Scourge of Malice or Malice Scourge or Mare Scourge was a 38-gun ship ordered by George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland. She was built and launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1595. The Earl used her as
1601 East India Company Voyage
…and force to establish English influence in the area and disrupt Portuguese trade. The flagship of the five-vessel EIC fleet was the 600 ton galleon Malice Scourge which had been built for privateering against the Spanish in the West Indies. It was purchased from its owner the Earl of Cumberland for £3,700; he had…
1614 painting by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom showing English, Dutch and Spanish ships in a bay in the East Indies.