In 1624 he fortified Lima against pirate attacks, including those by Jacques l ' Hermite, a Dutch merchant, explorer and admiral known for his journey around the globe with the Nassau Fleet ( 1623 – 1626 ) and for his blockade and raid on Callao in 1624 during that same voyage in which he also died.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

* 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.

* 1628 – The Swedish warship sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.

* 1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

* 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

* 1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.

* 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

* 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

He also accompanied Cook's third voyage ( 1776 – 1778 ), this time aboard Resolutions sister ship, and the first European sighting and exploration of the Hawaiian Islands.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.

* 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam ( on Java ).

* 1959 –, said to be the safest ship afloat and " unsinkable " like the, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.

* 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay ; they are never heard from again.

* 1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.

* 1952 – The sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton.

A short account of Queirós's voyage and discoveries was published in English by Samuel Purchas in 1625 in Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, vol.

* John Robinson ( pastor ) ( 1575 – 1625 ), English pastor who organized the Mayflower voyage

Willem Ysbrandtszoon Bontekoe ( June 2, 1587 – 1657 ) was a skipper in the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ), who made only one voyage for the company ( 1618 – 1625 ).

In 1625 he was stated to be one of the commanders of two ships sent on a whaling voyage to Spitsbergen by the Yarmouth merchant Thomas Horth.

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.

The purpose of this fourth voyage was clear.

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

Rogers ' A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope was published in 1712 and included an account of Selkirk's ordeal.

Phillip had a very difficult time assembling the fleet which was to make the eight-month sea voyage to Australia.

The observatory was equipped with instruments purchased during his long voyage abroad, comprising the most modern instrumental technology of the period.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

Peuple Souverain also remained at Gibraltar: the ship was deemed too badly damaged for the Atlantic voyage to Britain and so was converted to a guardship under the name of HMS Guerrier.

The dog was not, however, on the maiden voyage.

Nicosian was renamed Nevisian, and the crew was issued new Discharge Books, with the voyage omitted.

Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage.

The Chilean Patagonia located south of the river " calle calle " in Valdivia was composed of many tribes, mainly Tehuelches that were consider giants by Spaniards during Magellan voyage of 1520.

During a second voyage in 1494, Columbus passed along the south coast of the island, landing at various inlets including what was to become Guantánamo Bay.

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.