Sir Francis Drake first started going to sea at the very young age of merely twelve or thirteen years old while he was living in Chatham which is where he first moved after birth. At this age, he owned a small trading ship which was bequeathed to him after the owner of the ship died. Francis decided to sell this ship in order to return to Devon at sail with his relative John Hawkins. Together, they made their first voyages taking African slaves to the 'New World'. At the age of eighteen, he started serving in ship trading to the Bay of Biscay and at age twenty three, went on slaving voyages to Guinea in West Africa.
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