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Flor do Mar or Flor de la Mar (Flower of the Sea, spelled Frol de la Mar in Portuguese chronicles of the 16th century [ 5]) was a Portuguese nau ( carrack) of 400 tons, which over nine years participated in decisive events in the Indian Ocean until her sinking in November 1511. Nobleman Afonso de Albuquerque was returning from the conquest of ...
Maritime Museum ( Malay: Muzium Samudera) is a museum about maritime activities in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. [1] It was officially opened to the public by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on 13 June 1994, began with phase one. [2] The phase two of the museum is housed in the old Guthrie building and was opened by State Committee for ...
Near dawn, Flor de la Mar (the highest Portuguese carrack) caught up and rammed the junk, while firing artilleries which killed 40 of the junk's crew. The junk was so tall that Flor de la Mar's rear castle could barely reach its bridge, [note 6] and the Portuguese did not dare to board it.
João da Nova fought in the Battle of Diu in February 1509, his ship, the Flor de la Mar, being used by the vice-roy Francisco de Almeida as the flagship of the Portuguese battle fleet. In March of that year, Afonso de Albuquerque, by then in Cochin himself, invoked his own secret credentials to relieve Francisco de Almeida as governor of India.
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — French Polynesian Kauli Vaast won the gold medal in men’s surfing while Caroline Marks from the United States won the women's surfing gold medal on Monday at the ...
Many scholars assert that the real discoverer of Brazil was the Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, who landed at the Cape of Santo Agostinho [ pt] on 26 January 1500. The world map by Juan de la Cosa, dated 1500, is the oldest nautical chart depicting Brazil. Many scholars assert that the real discoverer of Brazil was the Spanish ...
Mendam Berahi was a legendary royal galley (Classical Malay: ghali kenaikan raja) said to have been used by the Malacca Sultanate in the early 16th century. This ship is fictional, recorded in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, and that type of ship, the ghali, did not exist until after the 1530s.
Nuestra Señora de Atocha ( Spanish: Our Lady of Atocha) was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports at ...