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The Vasco da Gama class frigates NRP Álvares Cabral and NRP Corte Real have regularly contributed to long-range NATO exercises in the Indian Ocean, and both have served as NATO task-force flagships in the mission against Piracy in Somalia.
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The city's status was further diminished after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, thereby allowing spice traders to avoid Cairo.
* António da Costa de Albuquerque de Sousa Lara, 2nd Count de Guedes, Vasco de Bettencourt de Faria Machado e Sampaio and Marcelo Olavo Correia de Azevedo, Ascendências Reais de Sua Alteza Real a Senhora Dona Isabel de Herédia Duquesa de Bragança, I, pelos Costados Herédia, Bettencourt e Meneses da Ilha da Madeira " ( Universitária Editora, 1999 )
* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
In exchange, the Portuguese received gold ( transported from mines of the Akan deposits ), pepper ( a trade which lasted until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498 ) and ivory.
In 1498, Vasco da Gama successfully discovered a new sea route from Europe to India, which paved the way for direct Indo-European commerce.
In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India and later the Far East.
From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.
Later, starting in 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama made the first open voyage from Europe to India.
* 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498.
When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.
* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode ( previously known as Calicut ), India.
Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century following Vasco da Gama's voyages of exploration saw them battle the Ottomans up the coast of the Persian Gulf.
The control of trade routes and the spice-producing regions were the main reasons that Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed to India in 1499.
In 1498, by reaching India, Vasco da Gama proved that the access to the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic was possible.
Vasco and Gama
The complete conquest of Ethiopia was averted by the timely arrival of a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão da Gama, son of the famed navigator Vasco da Gama.
Vasco da Gama, who passed by Mogadishu in the 15th century, noted that it was a large city with houses of four or five storeys high and big palaces in its centre and many mosques with cylindrical minarets.
Jonathan Lamb wrote: " In 1499, Vasco da Gama lost 116 of his crew of 170 ; In 1520, Magellan lost 208 out of 230 ;... all mainly to scurvy.
Vasco and class
NRP Corte Real ( F332 ), a modern Vasco da Gama class frigate | Vasco da Gama class multi-purpose frigate.
* 5 Westland Super Lynx Mk. 95-helicopters ( a helicopter squadron was formed in 1993 to operate the Lynx from the Vasco da Gama class frigates ).
From left to right: Vasco da Gama class frigate | NRP Alvares Cabral ( F331 ) HMCS Toronto ( FFH 333 ) | HMCS Toronto ( FFH 333 ) USS Normandy ( CG-60 ) | USS Normandy ( CG-60 ) Rhön class tanker | FGS Spessart ( A1442 ) HNLMS Evertsen ( F805 ) | HNLMS Evertsen ( F805 ) HDMS Olfert Fischer ( F355 ) | HDMS Olfert Fischer ( F355 )
Portuguese frigate Vasco da Gama class frigate | NRP Corte Real ( F332 ) and Turkish frigate G class frigate | TCG Gelibolu ( F493 ), participating in SNMG-2 during Phoenix Express ( PE 08 ).
Vasco and NRP
Portuguese Navy Westland Lynx | Lynx Mk-95 helicopter takes off from the flight deck of NRP Vasco da Gama ( F330 ) | NRP Vasco da Gama frigate.
Vasco and Álvares
The tables of the Almanach Perpetuum, by astronomer Abraham Zacuto, published in Leiria in 1496, were used along with its improved astrolabe, by Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral.
The Church of Santa Engrácia, in Lisbon, Portugal, turned into a National Pantheon since 1966, holds six cenotaphs, namely to Luís de Camões, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Afonso de Albuquerque, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Vasco da Gama and Henry the Navigator.
The final banknote series featured the Age of Discovery, with João de Barros, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, and Henry the Navigator.
Just eight years later in 1500, the Portuguese navigator, Pedro Álvares Cabral while attempting to reproduce Vasco da Gama ’ s route to India was blown westwards to what is today Brazil.
Cantino planisphere 1502, earliest surviving chart showing the explorations of Christopher Columbus | Columbus to Central America, Gaspar Corte-Real | Corte-Real to Newfoundland, Vasco da Gama | Gama to India and Pedro Álvares Cabral | Cabral to Brazil.
The Manueline (, ), or Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral.
The Fundação Jorge Álvares ( Jorge Álvares Foundation ), founded by Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira prior to the handover of Macau, got its name from him also having reached there.
He participated in the discovery of the route to India by Vasco da Gama where he commanded Berrio, the first caravel to return ; was captain of a ship in the fleet headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral who landed in Brazil.
In 1500, a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, which followed the route just opened by Vasco da Gama to India, was dispersed by a storm in the Indian Ocean.
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