NWI4835697: British Navy officers playing a ball game on Plymouth Hoe, waiting for the approach of the terrible Spanish Armada, 1588. Among them, the English navigator Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596). Illustration of the anecdote that Drake calmly finished his game as the fleet of the “Invincible Armada” of Spain approached the English coast. Coloured water, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images