James Lancaster
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Sir James Lancaster was an English privateer and trader of the Elizabethan era.
1596 portrait of Lancaster
The Red Dragon
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
James Lancaster
…with local produce such as Brazil-wood (the source of a valuable red dye used in the woollen textile industry). In 1600 he was given command of the East India Company first voyage (which sailed from Torbay on 22 April, 1601); his vessel was the Red Dragon. He was also accredited as Queen Elizabeth's special envoy to various Eastern…
Print from Floris Balthasar showing the Anglo-Dutch capture of the Portuguese carrack São Antonio in the Malacca Straits
Illustration of the 'First fleet of the East India Company leaving Woolwich, 1601'