Bartolomeu Dias — The Last Voyage, Lisbon to the South Atlantic, 1500
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Bartolomeu Dias · Lisbon – Cape Verde – Monte Pascoal – Porto Seguro – the South Atlantic · 9 March 1500 – 24 May 1500
In 1500, Bartolomeu Dias sailed from Lisbon as one of the captains of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet of 13 ships and about 1,500 men, sent by King Manuel I to India.
12 years earlier Dias had been the first European to round the southern tip of Africa. On this voyage he and his brother Diogo Dias each commanded a caravel bound for Sofala, on the coast of Mozambique, to open the gold trade there.
The fleet left on 9 March 1500. A day past the Cape Verde islands, Vasco de Ataíde's ship vanished in clear weather. Cabral held far to the west for the winds that lead round Africa, and on 22 April his men saw land: Brazil. At Porto Seguro, Cabral sent Dias and Nicolau Coelho ashore to return 2 Tupiniquim men who had slept aboard. Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter to the king also records Dias killing a shark and throwing it on the beach for the people there. A cross was raised, Mass was said, and one ship went home with the news.
On 2 May the fleet steered for the Cape of Good Hope. On 12 May a comet with a very long tail appeared and stayed in view for 8 or 10 nights. On Sunday 24 May, 22 days out from Brazil, the Anonymous Pilot wrote, "there came on us a head wind so strong and so sudden that we knew nothing of it until the sails were across the masts." 4 ships were lost with everyone aboard. One of them was Dias's. The 7 that survived were scattered for 20 days.
Why it matters: Dias died at sea on the route he had opened. Cabral rounded the Cape with 6 ships and went on to India, and Diogo Dias, blown far to the east, sighted Madagascar.
#bartolomeudias #pedroalvarescabral #history #maps #exploration
Sources and data
• The Anonymous Pilot's narrative, in W. B. Greenlee, The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India (Hakluyt Society, 1938), pp. 60–61: the fleet sailed on 2 May "to go round the Cape of Good Hope"; the comet on 12 May, "in view continuously for eight or ten nights"; the head wind on Sunday 24 May and four ships "lost with all on board"; the survivors scattered for twenty days. Greenlee's notes name the four ships as those of Bartolomeu Dias, Luís Pires, Aires Gomes da Silva, and Simão de Pina. Castanheda and Barros also give 24 May; Góis gives the 25th; some modern accounts give 29 May.
• Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter to King Manuel I, in Greenlee: Cabral sends "Nicolao Coelho and Bartolameu Dias" ashore with the two men who had slept aboard; "a shark which Bertolameu Dias killed" brought to the people on the beach.
• King Manuel I's letter of 1501, in Greenlee, p. 44: the storms came "in that gulf, before arriving at" the Cape. No source gives a position; the video places the storm in the open South Atlantic, as in the earlier Cabral video, and says "short of the Cape".
• Greenlee's introduction and notes: Dias's and Diogo Dias's caravels bound for Sofala with copper and trade goods; Diogo Dias's ship separated and sighting Madagascar.
• Wikipedia, "2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)" and "Bartolomeu Dias": the fleet of 13 ships and about 1,500 men; the dates at Cape Verde and in Brazil. Britannica and the Catholic Encyclopedia say Dias was lost off, or not far from, the Cape of Good Hope.
• Head-count: about 1,500 at Lisbon; 150 lost with Ataíde; about 50 assumed for the supply ship sent home; about 380 lost in the storm. The figures after Lisbon are estimates and kept round.
• Sound: Freesound recordings: "sea gulls" by Snapper4298 (CC0); "seagulls 3" by Snapper4298 (CC0); "Amazon Jungle in the Morning at Rainforest Tambopata National Reserve" by albertocendrawoodman (CC0); "Binaural catholic gregorian chant mass liturgy" by SusoRamallo (CC BY 4.0); "Storm wind" by juskiddink (CC BY 4.0); "SFXwoodcrackdestroyburst01" by EricsSoundschmiede (CC0); "Crashing Waves into Rocks 1" by amholma (CC0). Wave wash, ship's bell, and music synthesized in-repo.
• Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Shaded relief and hypsometric tint produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-90. Bathymetry from GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2026 (2026), The GEBCO_2026 Grid, a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 15 arc-second intervals, doi:10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa. Coastline, rivers, and lakes from © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the ODbL (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
Waypoints are approximate and drawn for illustration. The storm's position is not recorded; the day-by-day itinerary is not reproduced.
In 1500, Bartolomeu Dias sailed from Lisbon as one of the captains of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet of 13 ships and about 1,500 men, sent by King Manuel I to India.
12 years earlier Dias had been the first European to round the southern tip of Africa. On this voyage he and his brother Diogo Dias each commanded a caravel bound for Sofala, on the coast of Mozambique, to open the gold trade there.
The fleet left on 9 March 1500. A day past the Cape Verde islands, Vasco de Ataíde's ship vanished in clear weather. Cabral held far to the west for the winds that lead round Africa, and on 22 April his men saw land: Brazil. At Porto Seguro, Cabral sent Dias and Nicolau Coelho ashore to return 2 Tupiniquim men who had slept aboard. Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter to the king also records Dias killing a shark and throwing it on the beach for the people there. A cross was raised, Mass was said, and one ship went home with the news.
On 2 May the fleet steered for the Cape of Good Hope. On 12 May a comet with a very long tail appeared and stayed in view for 8 or 10 nights. On Sunday 24 May, 22 days out from Brazil, the Anonymous Pilot wrote, "there came on us a head wind so strong and so sudden that we knew nothing of it until the sails were across the masts." 4 ships were lost with everyone aboard. One of them was Dias's. The 7 that survived were scattered for 20 days.
Why it matters: Dias died at sea on the route he had opened. Cabral rounded the Cape with 6 ships and went on to India, and Diogo Dias, blown far to the east, sighted Madagascar.
#bartolomeudias #pedroalvarescabral #history #maps #exploration
Sources and data
• The Anonymous Pilot's narrative, in W. B. Greenlee, The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India (Hakluyt Society, 1938), pp. 60–61: the fleet sailed on 2 May "to go round the Cape of Good Hope"; the comet on 12 May, "in view continuously for eight or ten nights"; the head wind on Sunday 24 May and four ships "lost with all on board"; the survivors scattered for twenty days. Greenlee's notes name the four ships as those of Bartolomeu Dias, Luís Pires, Aires Gomes da Silva, and Simão de Pina. Castanheda and Barros also give 24 May; Góis gives the 25th; some modern accounts give 29 May.
• Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter to King Manuel I, in Greenlee: Cabral sends "Nicolao Coelho and Bartolameu Dias" ashore with the two men who had slept aboard; "a shark which Bertolameu Dias killed" brought to the people on the beach.
• King Manuel I's letter of 1501, in Greenlee, p. 44: the storms came "in that gulf, before arriving at" the Cape. No source gives a position; the video places the storm in the open South Atlantic, as in the earlier Cabral video, and says "short of the Cape".
• Greenlee's introduction and notes: Dias's and Diogo Dias's caravels bound for Sofala with copper and trade goods; Diogo Dias's ship separated and sighting Madagascar.
• Wikipedia, "2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)" and "Bartolomeu Dias": the fleet of 13 ships and about 1,500 men; the dates at Cape Verde and in Brazil. Britannica and the Catholic Encyclopedia say Dias was lost off, or not far from, the Cape of Good Hope.
• Head-count: about 1,500 at Lisbon; 150 lost with Ataíde; about 50 assumed for the supply ship sent home; about 380 lost in the storm. The figures after Lisbon are estimates and kept round.
• Sound: Freesound recordings: "sea gulls" by Snapper4298 (CC0); "seagulls 3" by Snapper4298 (CC0); "Amazon Jungle in the Morning at Rainforest Tambopata National Reserve" by albertocendrawoodman (CC0); "Binaural catholic gregorian chant mass liturgy" by SusoRamallo (CC BY 4.0); "Storm wind" by juskiddink (CC BY 4.0); "SFXwoodcrackdestroyburst01" by EricsSoundschmiede (CC0); "Crashing Waves into Rocks 1" by amholma (CC0). Wave wash, ship's bell, and music synthesized in-repo.
• Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Shaded relief and hypsometric tint produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-90. Bathymetry from GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2026 (2026), The GEBCO_2026 Grid, a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 15 arc-second intervals, doi:10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa. Coastline, rivers, and lakes from © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the ODbL (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
Waypoints are approximate and drawn for illustration. The storm's position is not recorded; the day-by-day itinerary is not reproduced.
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