Ships laden with wheat from North Africa sail 300 miles to Rome's port of Ostia in 3 days, and the 1, 000 mile voyage from Alexandria averages 13 days.

* December 13 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

He intended to go with Cook on his second voyage, which began on 13 May 1772, but difficulties arose about the accommodation for Banks and his assistants, and he decided not to go.

The Apostle, St. Paul passed through Rhegium in his final voyage to Rome ( Acts XXVIII: 13 ).

* 13 February 2012-The Vega, which was designed in Italy, lifted off at 10: 00 GMT on its maiden voyage.

Pupils still train in cutters from the age of 13 upward at Hopeman Harbour to prepare for a voyage in the school's sailing vessel.

The results of this voyage were published under Freycinet's supervision, with the title of Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes Uranie et la Physicienne en 1824 – 1844, in 13 quarto volumes and 4 folio volumes of plates and maps.

In July 1859 failing health led him to seek rest in a trip to Europe, but he died on July 13, 1859 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had been put ashore when it was seen that he probably could not last the voyage across the Atlantic.

Cabral started the return voyage on 16 January 1501 and arrived in Portugal with only 4 of 13 ships on 23 June 1501.

* 2004 ( 13 January ): Spirit of Tasmania III makes its first voyage from Sydney to Devonport

* The longest microlight voyage in the world: 13, 000 miles from London to Sydney with blind hang-glider pilot Miles Hilton-Barber.

Embarkation took place in Livorno on 13 August 1817 among much celebration, and after an adventure-filled voyage lasting 81 days, Leopoldina arrived in Rio de Janeiro on 5 November and finally met her husband.

On his first voyage as a captain, De With already showed he was the strict disciplinarian of later legend: on 13 April six of his men deserted his ship, and the constant beatings and floggings, to flee to the uninhabited island of Juan Fernández.

Max Pruss ( 13 September 1891-28 November 1960 ) was the commander of the LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the zeppelin disaster.

She sailed for her maiden voyage, a training voyage for permanent and volunteer crew, on 13 February 2000.

The crew consists of 6 permanent salaried crew, 11 to 13 volunteer crew and up to 48 voyage crew.

He achieved this on 20 January 2008 in 57 days, 13 hours 34 minutes and 6 seconds, in a voyage that is regarded as one of the most impressive sailing feats in recent history and in a time nearly two weeks less than the previous record.

Together with the Jesuits Wilhelm Weber and Wilhelm Meyr, and a doctor, Franz Kaspar Schillinger ( who left us an account of the perilous voyage ), he set forth ( 30 October 1699 ) on a long arduous overland journey to India, traveling through Italy, Turkey, Syria, Armenia, and Persia, and set foot in India at Surat ( in contemporary Gujarat ) on 13 December 1700.

Darwin had already been invited by FitzRoy to contribute his Journal, based on his field notes, as the natural history section of the captain's account of the Beagle's voyage, and this ended up keeping him fully occupied from 13 March to the end of September.

She sailed with the Fleet for New South Wales from Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, arriving after a cramped and insanitary voyage of seven months at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson on 26 January 1788.

After sailing back and forth between Sardinia, Tunis and Sicily for nearly two months, and sending the demands again, he arrived at Porto Farina, where the Barbary ships had gathered for their intended voyage to the Dardanelles to help the Turks that season, on 13 April.

John Van Buren, a handsome attorney known as " Prince John ", died at sea on October 13, 1866, while on the voyage from Liverpool to New York.

After landing in Brazil, the fleet resumed their voyage east on May 3, 1500 where they were struck by a great storm near the Cape of Good Hope losing 4 vessels in the process and they continued with stops in modern-day Mozambique, Kenya, and Tanzania before finally reaching Calicut in India on September 13, 1500.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

The type specimen of Common Heath was collected in 1793 by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in Van Diemens Land ( now Tasmania ) during a voyage with Bruni D ' Entrecasteaux It was described by Labillardiere in 1805 who gave the species its current name Epacris impressa.

On 7 June 2012, Tito Kayak started a two-leg lone high seas voyage from Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Washington, D. C., USA, to protest the U. S. incarceration of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera.

At Rome he fell in with D ' Herbelot, who invited him to be his companion in a projected voyage to the Levant.

* Honorary Doctor of Science ( Sc. D ) from the American International College, whose citation reads: " Your most recent exploit in commanding the largest submarine in existence during an historic submerged voyage around the globe has won for you and your crew the admiration of the world you circled.

J. R. D. Tata, the father of civil aviation in India, made his maiden voyage to Juhu Airport from Drigh Road airstrip, Karachi, via Ahmedabad, on 15 October 1932 carrying mail in a Puss Moth aircraft.

* In 1997, Bernard and his brother David wrote an article ( available here ) questioning the authenticity of City of Light, a book that purported to be an account translated by David Selbourne of the voyage by Italian Jacob D ' Ancona to 13th Century China, years before Marco Polo.

It also sparked some controversy because the claim is that Saint Brendan and his brethren made a seven year voyage to the Americas and back ( one version has five years in a leather boat and a second voyage of two years in a wooden boat ) in the 6th century ( around 530 A. D .).

A. D. H. Bivar, writing in The Cambridge History of Iran, said that the reign dates of one Gondophares recorded in the Takht-i Bahi inscription ( 20 – 46 or later AD ) are consistent with the dates given in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas for the Apostle's voyage to India following the Crucifixion in c. 30 AD.

Olof was king in Sweden when Catholic missionary St. Ansgar made his second voyage from Germany to the Swedish city of Birka in the year 854 A. D.

* Journal du voyage de M. D. Chamier à Paris et à la cour de Henri IV.

* Journal du voyage de M. D. Chamier at archive. org

J. R. D. Tata, the father of civil aviation in India, made his maiden voyage to Juhu airport from Drigh Road Airstrip in Karachi, via Ahmedabad, on 15 October 1932 carrying mail in a Puss Moth aircraft.

Subtitled " Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV ", it is written as though published in the year 2366, five years after Barlowe's participation in a voyage to an alien planet, dubbed Darwin IV in honor of Charles Darwin.

The botanical results of the voyage were published as Botany of the Voyage of HMS Herald and he was awarded a Ph. D. by the University of Göttingen in 1853.

The Common Heath was collected from Tasmania in 1793 by the French botanist, Jacques-Julien Houton de Labillardiere during his voyage with Bruny D ' Entrecasteaux on the unsuccessful search for the missing explorer, La Perouse.

Among the midshipmen assigned to the Naval Academy while it was at Fort Adams was Robley D. Evans who was wounded at Fort Fisher, North Carolina in 1865 and later commanded the Great White Fleet in 1907 on the first leg of its epic around the world voyage.

* 1959 – The, Australia ’ s first passenger roll-on / roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.

* January 30 – Danish passenger / cargo ship, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.

* September 23 – The M / S Princess of Tasmania ( Australia's first passenger RO / RO diesel ferry ) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.

He was thus said to be the secretary and counselor of Ra, and with Ma ' at ( truth / order ) stood next to Ra on the nightly voyage across the sky, Ra being a sun god.

1911-1912 saw the world's first ever ocean-going diesel-powered ship, M / S Selandia, start her maiden voyage from Copenhagen to Bangkok with two B & W four-stroke main engines ( furnishing a total of 2, 500 hp ).

" The ox-cart suggests a longer voyage, rather than a local journey, perhaps linking Gordias / Midas with an attested origin-myth in Macedon, of which Alexander is most likely to have been aware.

The first vessel other than a regular liner to receive the trophy was the passenger / car ferry Hoverspeed Great Britain when she established a new speed record for a commercial vessel on her eastbound delivery voyage without passengers in 1990.

Another example of a terra nullius was Antarctica, which was not sighted by humans until James Cook's second voyage in 1773 / 4.

Hans Egede, a Dano-Norwegian missionary, reported that on a voyage to Gothaab / Nuuk on the western coast of Greenland he observed:

Rozhestvensky was fully aware that he had a new untrained navy under his command and that re-coaling stations would not be available during the journey, due to Britain's alliance with Japan ; and that both the shakedown testing of the new battleships and the gunnery practice / training would have to occur during the voyage.

During this maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Challenger, the crew performed the first Shuttle deployment of an IUS / TDRS satellite, and Musgrave and Don Peterson conducted the first Space Shuttle extravehicular activity ( EVA ) to test the new space suits and construction and repair devices and procedures.

A mission / passage plan can be summarized as a comprehensive, step by step description of how the voyage is to proceed from berth to berth, including undocking, departure, the enroute portion of a voyage, approach, and mooring / arrival at the destination.

The story of this voyage and of her observations of Eastern life is told in Letters from Turkey, a series of lively letters full of graphic descriptions ; Letters is often credited as being an inspiration for subsequent female traveller / writers, as well as for much Orientalist art.

" A vessel of thirty-seven feet length, nine feet breadth of beam, and eighteen inch draw, for her trial voyage on San Francisco Bay a very large passenger was repeatedly warned not to stir from his " post of honor immediately over the boiler ," and on her only voyage to Sacramento in November / December 1847 it was reported that the baby of one of her passengers needed to be passed around to keep the " crank " vessel trim.

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

He uplifted the muskets at Port Jackson, Sydney on their return voyage on the Westmoreland, and Kendall himself was later involved in the musket trade and may have been party to the land / musket swap.

# ( 1903 ) Bourses de voyage ; English translation: Traveling Scholarships ( n / a )

* Star Quest: An incredible voyage into the unknown ( 1979, UK / US )

It is possible that the Aurora islands were " discovered " by Amerigo Vespucci in his 1501 / 1502 voyage with a Portuguese expedition.