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Da Gama's sons Estêvão and Paulo immediately lost their posts and joined the returning fleet of early 1525 (along with the dismissed Duarte de Menezes and Luís de Menezes). [49] Vasco da Gama's body was first buried at St. Francis Church, at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, but his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539. The body of Vasco ...
Vasco da Gama By António Manuel da Fonseca, 1838, from the Museu Marítimo Nacional. The crews comprised up to 170 men. The sailors had sailing charts marked with the positions of the African coast known until then, quadrants, astrolabes of various sizes, tables with calculations – such as astronomical tables of Abraham Zacuto – needle and ...
On 21 August 1898, in a room of the Sons of Talma Dramatic Society, 62 members (mostly Portuguese immigrants) formed Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (Vasco da Gama Rowing Club). Inspired by the celebrations of the 4th centenary of the first sail from Europe to India, the founders named the club in honor of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama . [ 9 ]
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 ...
The Vasco da Gama class is a class of frigates of the Portuguese Navy. Named in honor of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama , the ships are based on the German MEKO 200 design, and are Portugal's major surface ships.
Casino Lisboa (left) and Vodafone Portugal HQ (right) from the Tagus The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest bridge in both the European Union and Europe. Parque das Nações was the designation given to the neighborhood that emerged within the former Intervention Zone of Expo, encompassing the site where the 1998 World Expo was held as well as all areas that were under the administration of ...
Vasco da Gama-class frigate and Bartolomeu Dias-class frigate Anti-submarine/Anti-ship torpedo; Mark 46 torpedo United States: anti-submarine torpedo: Vasco da Gama-class frigate and Bartolomeu Dias-class frigate Black Shark torpedo Italy: heavyweight torpedo: Tridente-class submarine Machine guns; FN MAG Belgium: 7.62 mm machine gun
The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte Vasco da Gama) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It is the second longest bridge in Europe , after the Crimean Bridge , [ 8 ] and the longest one in the European Union .