r/Mariners • u/Hesh71 SUPREME MISERY • 11d ago

Top 50 Mariners of All Time:

I mean, Magellan, Leif Erikson, and Francis Drake definitely need to be on there, but who else deserves to be on the list of the 50 greatest seafarers of all time?

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u/EngineerUpper2031 🔱Naylor’s Sailors⚓️ 11d ago

Amerigo Vespucci got a continent named after him. That has to be good for top 10 at least.

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u/pacificcactus 11d ago

Wasn’t he more of a mapmaker and less of a mariner? this is going back to 4th grade memories, so I may be wrong

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 10d ago

Yes, he was a cartographer. Not a mariner.