book on eglands naval supremacy after defest of spanish armada

The Spanish Castilianised his name where he was known as Juan Aquines. Hawkins was known to have frequently referred to King Philip II as 'my old master'. He is thought to have done some service for the ambassadors from Spain, who negotiated the marriage of Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain. He worked with his older brother William Hawkins in the shipping industry and in privateering. The coroner decided White was the antagonist, and Hawkins's father secured a royal pardon.

Hawkins killed a man, a barber from Plymouth called White, before the age of 20. Sir Francis Drake, his second cousin, was brought up and lived in the same Protestant household as Hawkins. He was the second son of William Hawkins, who was the first Englishman to sail to Brazil, and Joan Trelawny, daughter and sole heiress of Roger Trelawny of Brighton, Cornwall. His exact date of birth is unknown, but was likely between November 1532 and March 1533. John Hawkins was born to a prominent family of ship builders and captains in the naval port of Plymouth in Devon. However, he died at sea during the expedition.Įarly years Hawkins was brought up in Plymouth, a naval port. In response, along with his cousin Sir Francis Drake, he raised a fleet of ships to attack the Spanish in the West Indies.

Hawkins' son, Richard Hawkins, was captured by the Spanish. He redesigned the navy so the ships were faster, more manoeuvrable and had more firepower. As Treasurer of the Navy, Hawkins became the chief architect of the Elizabethan Navy. In 1588, Hawkins served as a Vice-Admiral and fought in the victory over the Spanish Armada, for which he was knighted for gallantry.

He is considered to be the first English merchant to profit from the Triangle Trade, selling enslaved people from Africa to the Spanish colonies in the West Indies in the late 16th century. Hawkins pioneered, and was an early promoter of, English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader.

Book on eglands naval supremacy after defest of spanish armada