Little John (London)

Locality
Coordinate	51.501244, -0.122643
Adm. div.	Middlesex, now Greater London
Vicinity	The Thames
Type	Transport
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1591

In lieu of the Little John: the galeass Antelope (1546). Original by Anthony Anthony – Roll of Henry VIII's Navy / Wikipedia, public domain.

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London, home port of the Little John in 1591.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Little John was the name of a London-based ship which in 1591 intercepted a Spanish ship en route from Mexico or Spanish Central America to Havannah, Cuba.Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Green, Mary Anne Everett, ed. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594 (London, 1867), p. 143.

Background

• Wikipedia: London.
• Wikipedia: New Spain.

Also see

• 1591 - Harris, Michael - Declaration
• Ship names
• Places named after Little John.

Notes

Middlesex place-names 

 London place-names 

 Place-names