The ''Desire'' was the 120 ton flagship

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built for his highly successful 1586–1588 circumnavigation of the globe. The ''Desire'' was only the third ship to circumnavigate the globe after the ''Victoria'' of

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(journey completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano) and the ''

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'' of

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. After this expedition Cavendish was knighted by

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of England who was invited to a dinner aboard the ''Desire''. Thomas Eldred who sailed with Thomas Cavendish in the 1586–1588 voyage of circumnavigation had three paintings on an over-mantel. A ship, a globe with inscriptions noting the voyage and, a portrait of Thomas Eldred holding navigational instruments. It is believed the painting of the ship is most likely the ''Desire''. The mantel is currently in owned by the

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. The ship was later captained by John Davis on the second, unsuccessful, Cavendish expedition. On that same expedition it was the ship he captained when he probably discovered the

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. Davis brought the ship back, in a wretched state, to

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in Ireland on 14 June 1593. Only Davis and fifteen crewmen survived out of an original 76 on the ship. Port Desire in Patagonia was named by Cavendish in 1586 after his ship and later became known by the Spanish translation of the name,

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. Before his death, which occurred on the voyage home from the ill-fated second expedition, Cavendish made his will, bequeathing the ''Desire'' to

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* * {{cite book , chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVIOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Desire+%2B%22Sir+George+cary%22&pg=PA652 , chapter=Cavendish - letter which he wrote when dying , last=Southey , first=Robert , author-link=Robert Southey , date=1810 , title=History of Brazil , location=London, UK , publisher= Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme , page=652 16th-century ships Sailing ships of the United Kingdom Circumnavigators of the globe

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