Sentence examples for while on a voyage from inspiring English sources

Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, while on a voyage tracing Vasco da Gama's 1497 99 water route to India, sighted the mainland of South America near the present-day city of Pôrto Seguro, Brazil.

It sounds like a fantasy story from a classic adventure novel, but this was the reality for the Robertson family from Staffordshire while on a voyage around the world during the 1970s.

Texas' Spanish Royal Governor, Martín de Alarcón was the first documented European to tour the bay while on a voyage with a Tejas guide and several others in the early 18th century.

To see one on a voyage was an omen of shipwreck.

On 18 September, a German submarine unsuccessfully attacked her while she was on a voyage from Mudros to Suvla Bay.

While on a ferry voyage in western Scotland, Mendelssohn was so struck by the misty scene and the crashing waves that a melody came into his mind, a melody with all the surge and power of the sea itself.

"Then the count died of a heart attack while on a European voyage, and the countess was heartbroken and reportedly couldn't bear to return to the ranch," Ms. Taylor said.

In May 1792, while on a second voyage in the "Columbia," he explored Gray's Harbor (in the present state of Washington) and the Columbia River (which is named for his ship), giving the U.S. a claim to the Oregon Territory.

(His Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, was also known as the Scottish Symphony). While on a ferry voyage in western Scotland, Mendelssohn was so struck by the misty scene and the crashing waves that a melody came into his mind, a melody with all the surge and power of the sea itself.

In 1770 James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, claimed the continent for Britain, and named it New South Wales.

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