Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Christopher Columbus navigated near the Caribbean in 1502.

Later, the sultan sailed to Bintan and established a new capital there.

Pascal explored in depth our human dilemmas of evil, suffering and death.

On the morning of 27 April 1521, Magellan sailed to Mactan with a small attack force.

In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.

According to the saga of Erik the Red, when Erik was exiled from Iceland he sailed west and pioneered Greenland.

The islanders enjoyed safety at sea during World War II, as their merchant fleet sailed for both the Allied countries and Germany.

In 1794, Captain William Brown of Great Britain was the first foreigner to sail into what is now Honolulu Harbor.

From 1415 to 1488, Portuguese navigators sailed along the Western African coast, reaching the Cape of Good Hope.

In 1375 he sailed with Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, to relieve Brest, but after some initial success a truce was declared.

Powerful criminal organizations in Libya, from where most of the migrants had sailed, had accused the Italian authorities of violating the rights of those migrants.

Our Atlantic Alliance has navigated through some choppy seas over the years, but we have always been able to resolve the toughest issues.

On 28 April 1690 Phips sailed from Boston with a fleet of five ships, carrying 446 provincial militia.

Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Locke, who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage.

When night fell, Bowley sailed the family on a log canoe 60 miles (100 kilometers) to Baltimore, where they met with Tubman, who brought the family to Philadelphia.

The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration.

After investigating French holdings in Penobscot Bay and Passamaquoddy Bay, Phips sailed for Port Royal, arriving near Port Royal on 9 May.

Setting sail for Brazil on November 29, the royal party navigated under the protection of the British Royal Navy, under the command of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.

After four months of training and preparations, the British Home Fleet sailed on 30 March 1944 and aircraft launched from five aircraft carriers struck Kaafjord on 3 April.

He then sailed from Australia to China, charting previously unknown islands (mainly some of Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands), as well as a new trade route to Canton (now Guangzhou).

The first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth (1522) was by Westerners, as well as the first journey to the South Pole (1911), and the first moon landing (1969).

The success of Operación Alfil ( English Operation Bishop ) as it was known, with more than 700 interceptions and 25,000 miles sailed on the operations theatre helped to overcome the so called Malvinas syndrome .

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

History In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic to the Anadyr River on the Pacific, but his route was not practical and was not used for the next 200 years.

And with the same dogged determination that my father had bred into me since I was such a child he taught me how to sail, knowing I could never see where I was going, I could never see the shore, and I couldn't see the sails, and I couldn't see the destination.

In 1854, he set up, with the support of the British government, a small steamer, the Pleiad , which under W. B. Baikie made so successful a voyage that Laird induced the government to sign contracts for annual trading trips by steamers specially built for navigation of the Niger and Benue.