Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa- last captain general of the first round-the-world expedition... He was born in Espinosa de Los Monteros (Burgos) in 1485. He died probably in Seville, where he spent the last years of his life until at least 1545. Captain general of Magellan's expedition from September 152...

Voyage of Blonde, showing the main places visited. (The lines between these places are purely schematic and do not represent the actual route.) The journey out to Hawaii is shown in blue, the return in green. HMS Blonde was a 46-gun modified Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate of 1,103 tons burthen. She...

Grigory Andreyevich Spiridov (Russian: Григорий Андреевич Спиридов) (1713, Vyborg - 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1790, Moscow) was a leading Russian naval commander and admiral (1769). One of the greatest naval commanders in Russian history.[1] Grigory Spiridov began his career in the Russian Navy in 172...

Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai was a higher-castled Portuguese carrack with 140 guns, launched down in 1520 (800 t, length 38 m, width 13 m, draft 4–4.5 m). Built in Kochi, India around 1512 it had two square rig masts and is depicted on a painting attributed to Joachim Patinir. In 1524, it was the f...

1.Victoria 1519. Artist E. Voishvillo. 2.Victoria 1519.Carlos I Medal. Barbados 2019; 5$. Philippines 2002;5р.

Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a Royal Navy officer, politician and peer. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, off the south ti...

Anne Hilarion de Tourville.
The stamp depicts a portrait of the count against the background of a painting by the artist
Richard Paton «Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692».
PMR 2019; [P].

Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse June 6, 1678 , Versailles - December 11 , 1737 , Rambouillet , metropolis of France is the third legitimated son of King Louis XIV of France and the Marquise de Montespan , his official mistress from 1668 to 1680. He held the titles of Count of Toulouse ...

As everyone knows, Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The flagship Santa Maria had the nickname La Gallega. It was a nao, which simply means “ship” in old Spanish; today, we might call such a ship a carrack. She was fat and slow, designed for haul...

"Phoenix" is a brig of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Empire. One of three brigs of the same type. A sailing brig with a wooden hull, the first of three brigs of the same type, built from 1809 to 1818 in Kronstadt and St. Petersburg. The displacement of the brig was 470 tons, the length, ...

São Gabriel 1497
Barbados 2019; 5$.

Yu.F. Lisyansky - Russian navigator and explorer 1773-1837
Russia 2023; 45r.

The history of Madeira begins with the discovery of the islands by Portugal in 1419. There is no record of anyone living on the islands at that time. Portugal began populating the island in 1420. Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands, the position of which with reference to the Fortunate Islands or ...

Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 – 1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He was Lieutenant General of New France fro...

Yi Sun-shin, also spelled Yi Sun-sin, (born April 28, 1545, Seoul, Korea [now in South Korea]—died Dec. 16, 1598, off Noryang), Korean admiral and national hero whose naval victories were instrumental in repelling Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s. After passing the government examinations to...