Hugh Willoughby

…appointed pilot general of Sir Hugh Willoughby’s expedition in search of a northeast passage from England to China. The three-vessel fleet was to rendezvous at Vardø, Nor., but because of stormy weather Chancellor’s was the only ship to make it to Vardø. Willoughby and his crew died in Lapland, but…

…under the command of Sir Hugh Willoughby, with Richard Chancellor as chief pilot. Willoughby, with two ships, wintered in a harbour on the Kola Peninsula, where he and all his men perished. Chancellor, who in the Edward Bonaventure had become separated from the others in a gale, reached what is…

…sail under the command of Sir Hugh Willoughby; Willoughby’s ship was lost, but the exploration continued under the leadership of its pilot general, Richard Chancellor. Chancellor and his men wintered in the White Sea, and next spring “after much adoe at last came to Mosco.” Between 1557 and 1560, another…