Da Gama led two more multi-ship voyages to India in 1502 and 1524, and that final voyage’s 20-ship fleet included the São Jorge. The navigator would not return home from the third voyage: He ...

First English translation of the Roteiro da viagem de Vasco da Gama, believed by some authorities to be the work of Alvaro Velho. Editor favors João de Sá as author rather than Velho. Appendices: Two ...

Although the Journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India from 1497 to1499 is an anonymous work, it provides testimony of the pioneer sea voyage to India, one of the defining moments that ...

Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say. Ship may hold ‘significant historical and symbolic value’, scientists say . Vishwam Sankaran.

According to the best accounts, Vasco da Gama arrived off the Malabar coast some few days before reaching Calicut, the date being May 20, 1498, or 400 years ago. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

A sunken ship may hold the secret to Vasco da Gama's last voyage more than five centuries ago. The wreckage, discovered off the coast of Kenya in 2013, has been identified as a Portuguese vessel ...

A sunken vessel off the coast of Kenya may be a long-lost ship of famed explorer Vasco da Gama. The São Jorge, a ship that sailed on the explorer’s final voyage, sank in 1524.

This Sunken Ship May Be the 1524 Wreckage From Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage. If correctly identified, the ship would be one of the earliest European wreckages in the Indian Ocean.

A map of Vasco da Gama's first voyage Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “It is larger than what we imagined for an early 16th-century ship,” Castro tells Artnet . “It is enormous.

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.