Golden Hind Galleon Wallpaper
This Golden Hind galleon wallpaper puts an Elizabethan warship dead center in a heaving sea, sails full and a second ship smoking on the horizon behind her. Most historians identify the scene as Sir Francis Drake’s famous galleon. Originally the Pelican, renamed mid-voyage — which by this point in her 1577–1580 circumnavigation was the last of Drake’s five ships still afloat, raiding Spanish shipping up the Pacific coast. That burning vessel astern isn’t decoration; it’s the whole reason Spain called him “El Draque.
Golden Hind Galleon Wallpaper — The Last Ship Standing
Four ships left Plymouth with her and never came home, which lends the lone silhouette a certain swagger it has earned. If you’d prefer a tall ship whose day is ending peacefully rather than explosively, our Sailing Ship Sunset Wallpaper hasn’t fired a shot in its life. Or trim the sails on the rest of the fleet in our Ships collection.
