Born out of the sea 400 million years ago Drake’s Island has been a place of pilgrimage, a refuge, a fort, a prison, an observatory and an adventure centre. The fortifications have defended Plymouth from the time of the Spanish Armada to the World Wars. It has been the starting point for the voyages of discovery of some of the greatest of our explorers, Drake, Cook and Darwin. Still a place of mystery and rumour follow in the footsteps of Drake discovering Drake’s Island and the lives of those that lived there.
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THE 1960’s AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ADVENTURE TRAINING CENTRE
The first activity of note on the Island was in 1961 when a group of 120 Plymouth Baptists made a pilgrimage to the...
THE ISLAND IMMEDIATELY POST WORLD WAR TWO
With the end of the War life slowly began to change. The Japanese surrendered on Aug 15 1945 and the day after...
WORLD WAR TWO
The Germans had used what were possibly tourist photographs to identify the defences on the Island back in 1938 and as...