Which English navigator reached the White Sea in 1553 while seeking a northeast passage?

Richard Chancellor was the English navigator who reached the White Sea in 1553 while seeking a northeast passage.

Chancellor sailed as part of an expedition organized by English merchants hoping to find a sea route through the Arctic to Asia. After the fleet was scattered, his ship continued eastward and entered the White Sea. He reached the mouth of the Dvina River, near the site of modern Arkhangelsk, and then traveled overland to Moscow.

At the court of Ivan IV, Chancellor established diplomatic contact and helped secure the basis for trade between England and Muscovy. His voyage did not discover a navigable northeast passage to China, but it produced something commercially important: access to Russian markets and the foundations of the Muscovy Company.

The other options belong to different exploration stories. John Davis searched for the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher made Arctic voyages in the 1570s, and William Baffin explored Arctic waters in the early seventeenth century.