The Golden Hinde sits in a small dry dock off Cathedral Street, a full-size replica of the galleon Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world between 1577 and 1580. The original vessel started life as the Pelican before Drake renamed her mid-voyage, honouring his patron Sir Christopher Hatton, whose family crest featured a golden female deer.

Drake's circumnavigation made him fabulously wealthy and earned him a knighthood aboard the very deck he'd paced for three years. The replica, built in 1973 using traditional methods and materials, has itself sailed over 140,000 miles, including its own circumnavigation.

Moored in Bankside's old docklands, the ship offers a sense of scale most history books fail to convey: the entire crew of roughly eighty men lived, worked and survived storms in a vessel just 102 feet long.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours explore the surrounding Southwark streets, tracing the area's maritime past and its connections to Elizabethan London.