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Isle of Wight where they stayed for eight days. On May 8, they weighed anchor and sailed for
Virginia. Sir George Carey’s quarters were at Carisbrooke Castle, some six miles away from the
Cowes (Isle of Wright). It is widely thought that his expedition was planned with White’s
(Quinn, 1955: 515-517).
1587: William Irish was in the West Indies commanding five privateering ships as
captain. There is no documented record of Sir George Carey being at Roanoke Island, but a
deposition of a captured Spanish sailor indicates that they were at Port Ferdinando. He was
captured in June 1587 by Fancisca de Avalors. The English ship he was on sailed to 37° at the
Bay of Santa Maria, where they saw cattle and a dark-brown mule, where they stayed for three
days and went ashore to take in water. His ship left with one of the captured Spanish ships [no
mention of how many ships may have stayed, but this could be Port Ferdinando] (this is
obviously the same voyage as above, but more information has been provided) (Quinn, 1955:
782-3).
October 9, 1587: Queen Elizabeth puts a stay on all shipping (Quinn, 1955: 554).
April 22-May 22, 1588: John White attempts to reprovision the colony with the Brave
and the Roe, with Captain Arthur Facy and Pilot Pedro Diaz, a kidnapped Spanish sailor. The
ships are plundered by a French warship, and many on White’s ships are killed, thus forcing the
crippled vessels to turn back and abort the attempt (Quinn, 1955: 562-9, Doc. 86).
1588: Some of Raleigh’s ships were in the Caribbean in 1587 and 1588, and several
other fighting ships were also out in the same year as the Queen proclaimed an embargo
(Nicholls and Williams, 2011: 64; Nicholls is citing here Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder
and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1984: 218).