Hugh Willoughby
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Sir Hugh Willoughby was an English soldier and an early Arctic voyager. He served in the court of Henry VIII and fought in the Scottish campaign where he was knighted for his valour. In 1553, he was s
Willoughby in a posthumous portrait
Richard Chancellor
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Richard Chancellor was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia.
Hugh Willoughby
…search of a Northeast Passage. Willoughby and the crews of two ships died on the voyage while the third vessel Edward Bonaventure, under the command of Richard Chancellor, went on to open a successful, long-lasting trading arrangement with Russia. Willoughby was the third and youngest son of Sir Henry Willoughby of…
Richard Chancellor (1553)
Richard Chancellor's 1553 expedition to Nyonoksa and Yagry V. Kosov 137х198 2015
Monument to Richard Chancellor at Yagry Island