# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-cavendish
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:04.199Z

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name: "Thomas Cavendish"
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description: "Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and privateer known as \"The Navigator\" because he was the first to deliberately attempt to emulate Sir Francis Drake, raiding Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and then returning by circumnavigating the globe. Though Magellan-Elcano, Loaísa, Drake, and Loyola had all preceded him in circumnavigating the globe, Cavendish's own successful voyage, between 1586 and 1588, was the first deliberately planned circumnavigation. It made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk, and treasure from the Pacific and the Philippines, with his richest prize being the 600-ton Manila galleon Santa Ana. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England after his return. He later set out for a second raid and circumnavigation but was not as fortunate and died at sea in 1592, at the age of 31."
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deathDate: "1592"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump