Drake’s Final Resting Place Found?
As befits one of the most legendary ship captains of all time, Sir Francis Drake was buried at sea. At the age of 55, after a lifetime of privateering, plundering, battling, and exploring, the greatest English seaman this side of Nelson died of dysentery and went to his watery grave, in full armor, in a lead coffin, off Portabelo, Panama, in 1596.
