John Burgh (officer)
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Sir John Burgh was an English military and naval commander and privateer. He took troops from Lincolnshire to serve in the Netherlands in 1585; was subsequently knighted; made governor of Doesburg; an
Model of the Portuguese carrack Madre de Dios. Burgh took her a prize in 1592
The arrival of the Great Carrack Madre de Dios at Dartmouth Harbour, 18 September 1592; envisaged in a 19th-century watercolour
Madre de Deus
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Madre de Deus was a Portuguese ocean-going carrack, renowned for her capacious cargo and provisions for long voyages. She was returning from her second voyage East under Captain Fernão de Mendonça Fur
John Burgh (officer)
…put to sea under the command of Burgh, another squadron being detached under Sir Martin Frobisher. On 3 August Burgh (near the Azores) fell in with the Madre de Dios, or, as she was then called, the Great Carrack, and captured her after a running fight of some sixteen hours' duration near Flores Island. Her value…
Battle between the Earl of Cumberland and the Madre de Dios