Richard Hawkins
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Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins was an English seaman, explorer and privateer. He was the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins.
Portrait by an unknown artist in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
English ship Dainty (1588)
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Dainty was an English race-built galleon that began to be built in 1588. The original name was Repentance, but this was soon changed. It participated in some naval engagements in the Anglo-Spanish War
Richard Hawkins
…in 1588 he commanded a queen's ship against the Armada, and in 1590 his father's expedition at the coast of Portugal. In 1593 he purchased the galleon Dainty (built for the voyage of discovery), a vessel originally built for his father and used by him in his expeditions, and sailed for the West Indies, the…
Scale model of an English galleon