Wakefield Stars:- Sir Martin Frobisher, Elizabethan explorer
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Wakefield Stars:- Sir Martin Frobisher, Elizabethan explorer
Image: © Mike Kirby Taken: 18 Dec 2011
Sir Martin Frobisher was born in Altofts around 1535 and eventually became a privateer, like another famous Elizabethan seaman, Sir Francis Drake, with whom he accompanied on a voyage to the West Indies. On board the 1,100 ton 'Triumph' he played a role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 for which he was knighted. He was eventually mortally wounded whilst attempting to lift the siege of Fort Crozon near Brest, dying in Plymouth in November 1594. See Image
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53.683323
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-1.497296