B33 Drake's Ship, the Golden Hinde

After it circumnavigated the globe, the Golden Hinde was the most famous Elizabethan ship. Shakespeare set many scenes on board ships, e.g in "Pericles" and "The Tempest." This replica of the Golden Hinde is now moored in Southwark, near the new Globe Theatre. "Hamlet" was first performed in Africa when it was acted on board The Red Dragon, an East India Company ship off Sierra Leone, on the orders of the captain William Keeling to keep the crew occupied in September 1607.