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.
Richard Chancellor (1553)
Richard Chancellor's 1553 expedition to Nyonoksa and Yagry V. Kosov 137х198 2015
Monument to Richard Chancellor at Yagry Island
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
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…of Northumberland as principal patron. They hoped not only to discover a north-east passage but also to find a market for English woollen cloth. Sir Hugh Willoughby was given three ships for the search, and Chancellor went as chief navigator and second-in-command. Their orders from Cabot included behaving peaceably…
Willoughby in a posthumous portrait