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3 unusual facts about Muscovy Company


Thomas Marmaduke

In July, Marmaduke met with two shallops of the Mary Margaret, a ship sent by the Muscovy Company to hunt whales, in Horn Sound.

In 1613, he sailed for the Muscovy Company in the Matthew (250 tons), vice-admiral of the English whaling fleet.

William Whetstone

In June he was ordered to escort a convoy of nineteen ships of the Muscovy Company as far as the Shetland Islands.



see also

Company of Merchant Adventurers

Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands, founded in 1551, which later developed into the Muscovy Company or the Russia Company

Jonas Poole

On 6 May he came within sight of a mountain on the south coast of Spitsbergen, which he named Muscovy Company’s Mount (modern Hornsundtind).