Richard Hore

Richard Hore was an English merchant and navigator of the 16th century who led the first tourist cruise in the American history. A wealthy leather merchant of London, Hore traded with the Canary Islands. Interested in ideas which combined money making with adventure Hore chartered two fishing ships for a Newfoundland voyage with double purpose – to catch codfish and hunt, and to give to thirty aristocratic gentlemen pleasant experience. However, the venture ended poor and many of the gentlemen. This voyage belongs to sporadic and ill-organized voyages which are the only evidence of English fisheries in Newfoundland waters prior to the 1570s.