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George Fenner, a man that had beene conversant in many sea-fights, belonged to a Sussex family
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George Fenner, a man that had beene conversant in many sea-fights, belonged to a Sussex family
George Fenner, a man that had beene conversant in many sea-fights, belonged to a Sussex family, and was probably a native of Chichester. The family produced several other seamen, of whom William Fenner, Viceadmiral under Drake and Norris in the Portugal voyage, and Thomas Fenner, captain of the Dreadbought in Drakes Cadiz Expedition, are best known. The action off the Azores between the Portuguese squadron and George Fenners ships is memorable as the earliest revelation to English seamen of the power their superiority in gunnery was to give them. On his return from the voyage to Guinea in 1566, Fenner traded with the Low Countries. In 1588, he commanded the Galleon Leicester against the Armada, and in 1597 accompanied Essex in the Islands voyage. The portrait is taken from that in John Pines Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords, London, 1753, in the British Museum.
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