Tudor Sailors

Tudor Sailors

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Tudor Sailors

Tudor Sailors - The Age of Exploration
The great Tudor Age of Exploration was at first dominated by the Portuguese and the Spanish but during the Elizabethan era of the Tudors sailors and explorers such as the great Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583), Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), Sir Richard Grenville (1541-1591) and Sir Martin Frobisher (1535-1594) emerged. The Tudor sailors sought opportunities to acquire wealth, fame and power in distant lands following the lead of the Spanish and Portuguese sailors of the Tudor era.

The Motives of the Tudor Sailors
The motives of the Tudor sailors to undertake the dangerous voyages of discovery were:

• The crusading spirit of adventurers and explorers
• Commercial Motives - The acquisition of new lands and spices, precious stones, drugs, perfumes, gums, dyes and various woods
• New technology such as the compass were introduced which would guide the Tudor Sailors across the waters of the world enabling Tudor sailors to find their bearing in the fog
• Improvements in Navigation such as Astrolabes for calculating latitudes, the Telescope, Charts and Maps,  Cross-staffs which were used to measure the angle of the Sun or a star above the horizon, Nocturnals and Quadrants for measuring and timekeeping and Almanacs which forecast precisely where the the sun, moon, planets and navigational stars would be hour by hour and for years in the future

The Names of Famous Tudor Sailors
The names of the most famous Tudor Sailors are as follows:

Tudor Sailors
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