Golden Hind - in Popular Culture

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The onscreen symbol of Westward Television was a silver model of the Golden Hind.

On the Firesign Theatre's albums Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and Everything You Know Is Wrong, a character named Bob Hind hosts a travel programme called "The Golden Hind."

In the episode Hidden Valley of The Cisco Kid, the Golden Hind was the name of the ship captained by George Challis.

The train operating company First Great Western operate 2 services a day named after the Golden Hind. One being a service in the morning from Penzance to London Paddington and the other being a return journey in the evening.

In the 1920 book The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. Westerman, a dirigible that is attempting to circumnavigate the world is named the Golden Hind.

The Golden Hind was used in the 2009 film St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, and was seen in the film to sail down the Thames in a pirate attack against the film's villain (with the use of CGI).

The Golden Hind is used as Drake's flagship in Elizabeth The Golden Age, (2007) during the battle against the Spanish Armada.

The Golden Hind was the first subject for an Airfix construction kit, first introduced in 1952.

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