Hawkins, Sir Richard

Hawkins, Sir Richard

▪ English seaman
Hawkins also spelled  Hawkyns  
born c. 1560
died April 18, 1622, London

      English seaman and adventurer whose Observations in His Voyage Into the South Sea (1622) gives the best extant idea of Elizabethan life at sea and was used by Charles Kingsley for Westward Ho!.

      The only son of the famed seaman Sir John Hawkins by his first marriage, Richard Hawkins in 1582 sailed with his uncle William to the West Indies; in 1585 he commanded a ship on Sir Francis Drake (Drake, Sir Francis)'s raid on the Spanish Main and was a ship captain during the Armada campaign (1588).

      In June 1593 he sailed from Plymouth in the “Dainty” with two smaller vessels, which parted company before reaching the Pacific. In February 1594 he sighted what he called Hawkins Maidenland, probably the Falkland Islands, which had been discovered two years previously by John Davis. After burning four ships at Valparaíso, Hawkins continued up the coast until he met six Spanish warships off Callao. He overcame them; but on June 22, when north of Paita, he was wounded and forced to surrender after a fight lasting three days with two more Spanish ships. He was imprisoned at Lima and then from 1597 till 1602 in Spain, at which date his ransom of £3,000 was paid. On his return he was knighted and elected mayor and MP for Plymouth. In 1608, after five years as vice-admiral of Devon, he was arrested and fined for condoning piracy. In 1620 he sailed as second in command of an ineffective expedition against the Algerine corsairs.

      His Observations in His Voyage Into the South Sea was printed in 1622, having been composed about 1603.

Additional Reading
Michael Lewis, The Hawkins Dynasty: Three Generations of a Tudor Family (1969).John S. Morrill

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