Who is sir john Hawkins what did he do?

Answer 1

Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as John Hawkyns) (Plymouth 1532 - November 12, 1595) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, and slave trader. As treasurer (1577) and controller (1589) of the navy, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588. At age twenty-three, Frances Drake made his first voyage to the New World, sailing, in company with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives, the Hawkins family of Plymouth. In 1569 he was again with the Hawkins fleet when it was trapped by the Spaniards in the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulua. He escaped along with Hawkins but the experience is said to have led him to his lifelong revenge against the Spanish.

Answer 2

John Hawkins was born in Plymouth in 1532. He became a sea captain and the first British slave trader, capturing slaves and selling them to Spanish settlers in the Carribean. He had a second cousin called Francis Drake. John Hawkins father was William Hawkins and his mother was Joan Trelawney. In 1599 he married Kathrine Gonson.