Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer ...

Vasco da Gama would travel this route three more times in his life, including a final journey in 1524, the year of his death, during which he likely died from malaria, Phys.org reports.

Appendices: Two letters of King Manuel, 1499.--Girolamo Sernigi's letters, 1499.--Three Portuguese accounts of Vasco da Gama's first voyage, 1608, 1612, 1646.--Vasco da Gama's ships and their ...

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 ...

Da Gama embarked on a second voyage to India in 1502. He traveled with a fleet of 20 ships , and left five of them behind to watch over the Portuguese factories that dotted India’s southwest coast.

Da Gama achieved fame and fortune when he led the 1497 expedition that opened up the sea route to India, which had long been the source of the spices that were in demand among European aristocracy.

Vasco da Gama arrived in Lisbon on 18 September and rode in triumph through the city. He had been away for more than two years, travelled 38,600km (24,000 miles) and spent 300 days at sea.

The wreckage of a ship discovered off the coast of Kenya may have been from legendary explorer Vasco da Gama’s final voyage across the Indian Ocean, archaeologists say in a new study.

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.