Hugh Willoughby's Arctic expedition, Sir Hugh Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire (died 1554) was an early English Arctic voyager, He was sent out on 10 May 1553, as captain of the Bona Esperanza with two other vessels under his command and with chief pilot Richard Chancellor, by a company of London merchants known as the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands, which later became the Muscovy Company
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