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Simon Fernandes
Bornc. 1538
Terceira, the Azores
Diedc. 1590 (aged c. 52)
unknown, possibly the Azores
Piratical career
NicknameThe Swine
AllegianceSimon Fernandes Portuguese Empire
Simon Fernandes Spain
Simon Fernandes England
Years active1570s-c.1590
RankCaptain
Base of operationsSouth Wales, England
Battles/warsSpanish Armada
Later workPiloted Sir Walter Raleigh's failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke island, "The Lost Colony"

Simon Fernandes (Portuguese: Simão Fernandes; c. 1538 – c. 1590) was a 16th-century Portuguese-born navigator and sometimes pirate who piloted the 1585 and 1587 English expeditions to found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa de Contratación in Seville, but later took up arms against the Spanish empire, preying upon Spanish shipping along with fellow pirate John Callis. Charged with piracy in 1577, he was saved from the hangman's noose by Sir Francis Walsingham, becoming a Protestant and a subject of the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandes entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke, known to history as the "Lost Colony".

Fernandes disappears from the records after 1590, when he sailed with an English fleet to the Azores, a journey from which he most likely did not return alive. However, a copy of one of his charts of the East coast of North America still survives in the Cotton Collection, and was probably one of the chief sources used by John Dee for his 1580 map justifying English claims to North America.

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