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Pilot major
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A pilot major or pilot-major is a chief navigator of a ship or fleet. This term is mostly used to describe persons from the early modern period. Pilots major include: * William Adams (1564-1620), Englishman appointed pilot major of five Dutch East India Company ships, one of the few survivors of the only ship to reach Japan, where he became an advisor to the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu; inspiration of the character John Blackthorne, the fictional protagonist of the James Clavell novel Shogun and its adaptations * John Davis (c. 1550-1605), English explorer, one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I * Frans Jacobszoon Visscher, 17th century Dutch explorer who served as pilot-major on the first voyage of Abel Tasman |
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