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Vasco da Gama is a cruise ship operated by German cruise line Nicko Cruises . Completed in 1993, she previously sailed for Holland America Line as MS Statendam, for P&O Cruises Australia as Pacific Eden and for Cruise & Maritime Voyages as Vasco da Gama. In 2020, following CMV's filing for administration, she was sold by CW Kellock & Co Ltd. at ...
São Rafael: The sister ship of São Gabriel, built by the same builder at the same time for the same purpose. It was of similar dimensions as São Gabriel. Paulo da Gama, Vasco's brother, was the captain, other people include João de Coimbra, pilot, and João de Sá, clerk.
The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships [19] with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than the length of the equator.
Vasco da Gama, a pioneering explorer, sailed from Europe to the Indian Ocean in 1497, with his ship being the first to go round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
The two ships of the class, São Gabriel and São Rafael, were known as the "Angels" (Portuguese: Anjos). The names of the cruisers were inspired by the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama's twin command carracks (São Gabriel and São Rafael) that took part in the discovery of the sea route to India. [1]
The 4th Portuguese India Armada was a Portuguese fleet that sailed from Lisbon in February, 1502. Assembled on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of D. Vasco da Gama, it was the fourth of some thirteen Portuguese India Armadas, was Gama's second trip to India, and was designed as a punitive expedition targeting Calicut to avenge the numerous defeats of the 2nd ...
Vasco da Gama c. 1904. Vasco da Gama was laid down at the Thames Iron Works shipyard in London, Britain in 1875, [2] [3] and was launched on 1 December 1875. [4] The ship was completed in 1878. [5] She served as part of the coastal defense force that protected Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, and the mouth of the river Tagus.
In 1497 on the first Portuguese India Armadas expedition to India, Diogo Dias served as escrivão aboard Vasco da Gama's flagship São Gabriel.Dias was one of the main conduits between Gama and the Zamorin of Calicut, and was briefly taken prisoner by the Zamorin when negotiations became contentious.