India Route Shipwrecks Project
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| 1558||N Sra da Graça||João Rodrigues Salema de Carvalho||between Terra do natal and Cape of Good Hope||Nov 24, 1559||storm | | 1558||N Sra da Graça||João Rodrigues Salema de Carvalho||between Terra do natal and Cape of Good Hope||Nov 24, 1559||storm | ||
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| + | | 1560||São Paulo||Rui de Melo da Câmara||Sumatra Island||Jan 22, 1561||storm | ||
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| + | | 1562||São Martinho||D. Jorge Manuel||unknown||1563||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1562||Cedro||D Rodrigo (or Pedro) de Castro||unknown||1563||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1563||N Sra da Graça||Diogo Lopes da Lima||Cape of Good Hope?||March 15, 1565||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1563||São Filipe||Vasco Lourenço de Barbuda||Barra de Goa||Sept 1563||storm | ||
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| + | | 1564||Flor de la Mar||Damião de Sousa||Mozambique||1556||poor condition of ship | ||
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| + | | 1565||Tigre||Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos de Sousa||Mozambique||May 16, 1566||poor navigation | ||
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| + | | 1572||São Francisco||Pedro Leitão de Gamboa||unknown||April 23, 1573||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1573||Santa Clara||Luís de Alter||Brazil||1575?||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1576||São Jorge||Balthazar Pessanha||entry of the barra of Mozambique||1576||poor navigation? | ||
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| + | | 1577||São Pedro||Manuel de Medeiros||Baixos das Chagas or Pero dos Banhos||1578?||poor navigation? | ||
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| + | | 1577||São João||Miguel de Arnide (or Arruda)||Baixos of Pero dos Banhos||1578?||poor navigation | ||
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| + | | 1581||São Pedro||Leonel de Lima||Parcel de Sofala||1583||poor condition of ship | ||
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| + | | 1582||São Luís||Luís Caldera||Rio de Quelimane/Parcel de Sofala||1582||poor navigation | ||
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| + | | 1584||Boa Viagem||Lourenço Soares de Melo||unknown||1585||overloaded | ||
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| + | | 1585||Santiago||Fernão de Mendonça||Baixos da Judia||Aug 19-25, 1585||poor navigation | ||
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| + | | 1585||São Lourenço||Fernão (or Reimão) Falcão||Mozambique||1586||incapable to navigate | ||
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| + | | 1586||Reis Magos||João Gago de Andrade||São Tomé||1588?||overloaded | ||
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| + | | 1586||Bom Jesus «Caranja»||António Gomes de Goes||India||end 1586?||wrecked | ||
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| + | | 1586||São Salvador||Miguel de Abreu||Ormuz||1587||poor condition of ship | ||
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| + | | 1586||N Sra das Relíquias||Francisco Carvalho (or Cavaleiro)||Barra de Goa||Jan 5, 1587||overloaded | ||
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| + | | 1586||São Filipe||João Trigueiros||close to the Azores||June 8, 1587||captured by Francis Drake | ||
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| + | | 1587||Santiago||Francisco de Brio Lobato||Terceira Island||Aug 14, 1588||poor navigation | ||
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| + | | 1588||São Tomé||Estevão de Veiga||Terra do Natal||March 17, 1589||poor condition of ship | ||
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| + | | 1589||Santo António||D João da Cunha||between Mozambique and India||1589||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1590||Bom Jesus||Manuel de Sousa Coutinho||Baixos de Garajau||end of Feb, 1592||overloaded? | ||
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| + | | 1590||São Lucas||Rui Gomes da Grã||close to the Canarie islands or Madeira||end 1590||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1590||Espírito Santo||Diogo Pereira||in sight of Lisbon||Oct 28, 1590||taken by the English | ||
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| + | | 1591||São Bernardo (or Bartolomeu?)||Simão Vaz Telo||unknown||March 10, 1592||overloaded | ||
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| + | | 1591||Madre de Deus||Fernão de Mendonça Furtado||close to the Azores||Aug 15 or 19, 1592||taken by the English | ||
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| + | | 1591||Santa Cruz||António Teixeira de Macedo||close to the Azores||July 9, 1592||burned to escape from the English | ||
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| + | | 1591||São Luís||Diogo Nunes Gramaxo||Mozambique||1592/1593?||poor condition of ship | ||
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| + | | 1592||Santo Alberto||Julião de faria Cerveira||Penedo das Fontes, on the coast of Terra do Natal||March 26, 1593||poor condition and overloading | ||
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| + | | 1592||N Sra da Nazaré||Braz Correia||Mozambique||July 15, 1593||storm and overloading | ||
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| + | | 1593||Chagas||Francisco de Melo||close to Faial Island||June 22, 1594||overloading and enemy attack | ||
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| + | | 1593||São Bartolomeu||Lopo de Pina de Azavedo||unknown||April15, 1595||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1593||São Cristovão||António Teixeira de Macedo||between Mozambique and Goa||Aug 17, 1594||poor condition | ||
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| + | | 1593||São Pedro||Pedro Gonçalves||Pernambuco||Aug 4, 1594||bad weather | ||
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| + | | 1594||São Paulo||Sebastião Gonçalves de Arvelos||unknown||April 15, 1595||overloaded? | ||
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| + | | 1595||Madre de Deus||António Teixeira de Macedo||Cabo das Baixas||end of Jan 1595||unknown | ||
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| + | | 1595||N Sra da Luz||João de Saldanha||unknown||end Feb 1596||overloading | ||
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| + | | 1595||N Sra da Victória||João Rodrigues Carreiro (or Correia)||Mozambique||1596||overloading | ||
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| + | | 1595||N Sra do Rosário||Gaspar Palha Lobo||Mozambique||April 8, 1597||overloading | ||
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| + | | 1596||S Sra de guadaloupe (or Madre de Deus)||D Luís da gama||Barra de Cochim||Jan 6, 1598||burned before leaving | ||
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| + | | 1596||São Francisco||Vasco Borges da Fonseca||Azores (São Miguel?)||Nov 17, 1597||wrecked on the coast, burned, escaping the English | ||
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| + | | 1599||N Sra do Castelo||Simão de Mendonça||Parcel de Sofala||1599||wrecked | ||
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Revision as of 17:24, 7 December 2010
The objective of this project is the study of the Portuguese Indiamen that sailed annually from Lisbon to India, from 1498 to the 17th century, engaged in the commerce of pepper, spices, cotton, and many other goods.
Introduction
With his successful trip to India, around the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama opened a maritime route to the Asian markets of spices and exotic goods. The Portuguese crown sought to keep this commerce under state control, and sent a fleet to India almost every year, for over a century.
These voyages are reasonably well documented, as well as their routes, their ports of call, the names of the ship's captains, the Asian governors, and the notable soldiers.
We know a good deal about the economics of this trade, its impact in 16th-Century Europe, the business networks that were generated and developed in various countries, and the role of the Church in the European expansion to East.
At present we don't know much about the principal vehicle of this expansion: the Portuguese Indiaman. In fact, it is amazing how little is known about the Portuguese naus that plowed the maritime route to India from 1498 to about 1650.
A handful of interesting texts and treatises, a small number of representations in charts, drawings, and paintings, and around twenty shipwrecks are all the clues we have to interpret, in the attempt to understand and reconstruct these ships.We know almost nothing about the standard Portuguese Indiaman, its routes, evolution, and performance at sea.
We know very little about the way in which these vessels were conceived and built, and there are enormous gaps in our knowledge about their size, shape, construction details, structural strength, design of upper work, or even basic rigging solutions.
From an estimated total of around 220 shipwrecks, only a few Portuguese naus have been found in the 20th century, and almost all were looted by curious divers or destroyed by treasure hunters.
Very few have been excavated or even surveyed by archaeologists, and the rare scholarly publications that resulted from the archaeological recording of these shipwrecks have become precious, considering the scarcity of information available.
This page is intended as a contribution to this understanding, and a guide through the bibliography and other information available pertaining to the Portuguese naus da Índia.
The main objective of this project is to gather, organize, and make easily accessible all available information on Portuguese Indiamen.
Shipwrecks
| Armada | Ship | Captain | Place | Date | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1497 | Unknown | Gonçalo Nunes | Near Aguada de S. Brás | Nov 25 to Dec 6, 1497 | Burnt |
| 1497 | São Rafael | Paulo da Gama | Baixos de São Rafael | Jan 13, 1499 | Burnt |
| 1500 | Unknown | Vasco de Ataíde | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | Storm |
| 1500 | Unknown | Simão de Pina | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | Storm |
| 1500 | Unknown | Bartolomeu Dias | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | Storm |
| 1500 | Unknown | Aires Gomes da Silva | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | Storm |
| 1500 | Unknown | Sancho de Tovar | Coast of Melinde | 1501 | Burnt |
| 1502 | São Pantaleão? | Pedro Afonso de Aguiar | Parcel de Sofala | 1502 | Stranded after storm |
| 1503 | N Sra da Conçeição | Pedro de Ataíde | shallows of São Lázaro | 1504 | Stranded? |
| 1503 | Rainha | Francisco de Albequerque | Baixos de São Lázaro? | 1504 | Unknown |
| 1503 | Unknown | Pedro Vaz da Veiga | Close to the Cape of Good Hope? | 1503, 1504? | Unknown |
| 1503 | Faial or Faia | Nicolau Coelho | Shallows of São Lázaro | 1504 | Unknown |
| 1504 | Unknown | Pedro de Mendonça | Close to Aguada de São Brás | 1505 | Stranded |
| 1505 | Unknown | Lopo Sanches | Close to Cabo das Correntes | June or July 1505 | Storm |
| 1505 | Bela | Pedro Ferreira Fogaça | Coast of Guinee, latitude of Equador | May 4, 1505 | Storm and bad shape of ship |
| 1505 | Santiago | Pedro de Anhaia | Barra of Lisbon | March 25, 1505 | Poor navigation |
| 1505 | São João | Francisco de Anhaia | Mozambique or Quiloa | 1505 | Unknown |
| 1505 | Santiago «Galega» | Pedro Barreto de Magalhães | Leaving the barra of Quiloa | April 6, 1506 | Poor navigation? |
| 1506 | Leitoa | Leonel Coutinho | Mozambique | 1507 | Bad shape of ship |
| 1506 | São Vicente | Rui Perreira Coutinho | Coast of São Lorenço or Terra do Natal | 1506 | Shipwrecked |
| Armada | Ship | Captain | Place | Date | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1497 | unknown | Gonçalo Nunes | Near Aguada de S. Brás | 1497, Nov 25 to Dec 6 | burnt |
| 1497 | São Rafael | Paulo da Gama | Baixos de São Rafael | Jan 13, 1499 | burnt |
| 1500 | unknown | Vasco de Ataíde | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | storm |
| 1500 | unknown | Simão de Pina | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | storm |
| 1500 | unknown | Bartolomeu Dias | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | storm |
| 1500 | unknown | Aires Gomes da Silva | South Atlantic | May 23 or 24, 1500 | storm |
| 1500 | unknown | Sancho de Tovar | Coast of Melinde | 1501 | burnt |
| 1502 | São Pantaleão? | Pedro Afonso de Aguiar | Parcel de Sofala | 1502 | stranded after storm |
| 1503 | N Sra da Conçeição | Pedro de Ataíde | shallows of São Lázaro | 1504 | stranded? |
| 1503 | Rainha | Francisco de Albequerque | Baixos de São Lázaro? | 1504 | unknown |
| 1503 | unknown | Pedro Vaz da Veiga | close to the Cape of Good Hope? | 1503, 1504? | unknown |
| 1503 | Faial or Faia | Nicolau Coelho | shallows of São Lázaro | 1504 | unknown |
| 1504 | unknown | Pedro de Mendonça | close to Aguada de São Brás | 1505 | stranded |
| 1505 | unknown | Lopo Sanches | close to Cabo das Correntes | june or july 1505 | storm |
| 1505 | Bela | Pedro Ferreira Fogaça | coast of Guinee, latitude of Equador | May 4, 1505 | storm and bad shape of ship |
| 1505 | Santiago | Pedro de Anhaia | Barra of Lisbon | March 25, 1505 | poor navigation |
| 1505 | São João | Francisco de Anhaia | Mozambique or Quiloa | 1505 | unknown |
| 1505 | Santiago «Galega» | Pedro Barreto de Magalhães | leaving the barra of Quiloa | April 6, 1506 | poor navigation? |
| 1506 | Leitoa | Leonel Coutinho | Mozambique | 1507 | bad shape of ship |
| 1506 | São Vicente | Rui Perreira Coutinho | Coast of São Lorenço or Terra do Natal | 1506 | shipwrecked |
| 1506 | N Sra da Luz | João Gomes de Abreu | Pate | 1506 | unknown |
| 1506 | Santa Maria das Virtudes | Jorge Botelho | Pate | ||
| 1506 | unknown | Job Queimado | Atlantic Ocean | 1509? | captured and plundered by the French |
| 1507 | São Romão? | Vasco Gomes de Abreu | between Sofala and Mozambique | 1507 | unknown |
| 1507 | São João? | Pedro Lorenço | between Sofala and Mozambique | 1507 | unknown |
| 1507 | São Romão? | Lopo Cabral | between Sofala and Mozambique | 1507 | unknown |
| 1507 | São Simão | Rui Gonçalves de Valadares | between Sofala and Mozambique | 1507 | unknown |
| 1507 | unknown | João Chanoca | River Senegal | 1507 | poor navigation |
| 1507 | São Gabriel | Rui da Cunha | unknown | Jan 15, 1509 | unknown |
| 1508 | Santa Clara | Jerónimo Teixeira | between Malaca and India | 1509-1510? | poor navigation |
| 1508 | unknown | Gonçalo de Sousa | Indian Ocean ? | 1508-1509? | purposely burnt, for lack of sailors |
| 1508 | São João | Jorge de Aguiar | Tristão da Cunha islands | 1508 | unknown |
| 1509 | São Vicente? | Francisco de Sá? | Baixos of Padua in front of Cananor | 1510? | stranded |
| 1509 | São Jorge? | Sebastião de Sousa | Baixos of Padua in front of Cananor | 1510? | stranded |
| 1510 | São Roque? | Manuel da Cunha | Mozambique | 1510 | unknown |
| 1511 | S Maria da Luz?/São Pedro? | Jorge de Brito | Penedo de São Pedro | 1511 | unknown |
| 1512 | S António?/S Gião?/N Sra das Virtudes? | Francisco Nogueira | Baixos of Angoxa | 1512 | unknown |
| 1513 | S António?/S Gião?/N Sra das Virtudes? | Francisco Correia | São Lázaro island | 1513 | unknown |
| 1514 | São Roque? | Luís Dantas | Cambaia | 1514? | poor navigation |
| 1516 | N Sra da Luz | Franciso de Sousa «Mancias» | Baixos of S Lázaro, island of S Lorenço | August 1517? | storm |
| 1516 | São Simão? | António de Lima | Baixos of S Lázaro, island of S Lorenço | August 1517? | storm |
| 1519 | Santo António | Manuel de Sousa | Melinde/Quiloa? or Manfia island | 1519-1520? | unknown |
| 1523 | São Miguel | Aires da Cunha | Mozambique | 1523? | wrecked when retired for winter |
| 1524 | Barbosa | Francisco de Brito | between Mozambque and India | 1524 | unknown |
| 1524 | São Jorge | D Fernando de Monroy | low waters of Melinde | 1524 | unknown |
| 1524 | Santa Helena | Cristovão Rosado | Mozambique | August 1524? | wrecked against the coast |
| 1524 | «Garça» | «Moçem» Gaspar | close to Mozambique | 1524 | mutiny |
| 1524 | S Maria do Monte Sinai | D Luis de Meneses | Portuguese coast | 1525 | |
| 1525 | Corpo Santo | D Felipe de Castro | Cabo de Rosalgate | Nov 19, 1525 | wrecked against the coast |
| 1525 | S Vicente or Victória | Francisco de Anhaia | Leaving Lisbon | April 1525 | unknown |
| 1525 | S Maria de Paraíso | Diogo de Melo | close to Lisbon in the cachopos | July 4,1527 | unknown |
| 1527 | S António or Conceição | Manuel de Lacerda | Bay of Santiago, on the island of S Lourenço | 1527 | poor navigation |
| 1527 | S Sebastião | Aleixo de Abreu | Bay of Santiago, on the island of S Lourenço | 1527 | poor navigation |
| 1527 | S Ildefonso? | Pedro Aenes (french) | nknown | 1527? | unknown |
| 1528 | Flor da Rosa | Nuno da Cunha | Island of S Lourenço | Aug 23, 1528 | wrecked against the coast and burned |
| 1528 | Biscainha? | João de Freitas | Vale de Eguas, close to the Canarie islands | May 6, 1528 | collision with another vessel |
| 1528 | S Asanto Antonio? | Bernardim da Silveira | Parcel de Sofala | 1528 | unknown |
| 1528 | unknown | Afonso Vaz Azambujo | Island of João de Nova | 1528 | unknown |
| 1529 | Conceição | Henrique Moniz Barreto | Between Goa and Ormuz | end 1529? | unknown |
| 1529 | S Roque | Rui Mendes de Mesquita | Ìndia | end 1529? | unknown |
| 1529 | Flor de la Mar | Rui Gomes da Grã | Between India and Ormuz | end 1529? | unknown |
| 1530 | S. Dinis or Ajuda? | Duarte da Fonseca | Socotorá | 1530-1531? | storm |
| 1530 | Santa Maria | Diogo da Fonseca | Socotorá or Mozambique | 1530? | wrecked becuase leakage and shortage of sailors |
| 1531 | Esperança | Manuel de Macedo | Calecare, close to Cabo Comorim | 1531 | poor navigation |
| 1531 | Castelo | Achilles Godinho | unknown | 1532? | unknown |
| 1531 | Trindade | Diogo Botelho Perreira | unknown | 1532? | unknown |
| 1531 | Vera Cruz | Manuel Botelho | Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean | 1532 | poor navigation |
| 1533 | Bom Jesus or S João | D Francisco de Noronha | Cape of Good Hope? | 1533 | storm |
| 1536 | S Miguel | Duarto Barreto (or Pacheco) | unknown | 1537 | unknown |
| 1537 | S Paulo | Diogo Lopes de Sousa | S Lourenço island | 1538? | unknown |
| 1538 | Galega | Bernardim da Silveira | unknown | 1538? | unknown |
| 1539 | Esperança (or Galaga?) | Pedro (or Diogo) Lopes de Sousa | S Lourenço island | end Feb 1540 | unknown |
| 1541 | Santiago | Martim Afonso de Sousa | next to Baçaim | April/May 1542 | poor navigation, wrecked |
| 1542 | Grifo | Balazar Jorge | Terceira | 1543 | unknown |
| 1546 | Espírito Santo | Álvaro Barradas | Comoro islands | 1547 | wrecked |
| 1547 | São Tomé | D Pedro da Silva | Angoxa island | 1547 | unknown |
| 1547 | Santa Cruz | Misser Bernardo Nacer | Socotorá | Sept 1547 | unknown |
| 1549 | Salvador «Burgalesa» | João Figueira de Barros | close to Mozambique | 1549 | unknown |
| 1550 | Flor de la Mar | D Diogo de Noronha | Indian coast, off Baçaim | May 31, 1551 | poor navigation? |
| 1550 | São João | Manuel de Sousa Sepúlveda | South African coast | July 24, 1552 | wrecked because of bad shape and overloading |
| 1551 | Trindade «Biscaínha» | Lopo de Sousa | unknown | Feb 1552? | unknown |
| 1552 | Santiago | António Dias de Figueiredo | between the Azores and Portugal | Aug 1553 (or 1554?) | unknown |
| 1552 | Santa Cruz «Zambuco» | António Moniz Barreto | Ceitapor river, close to Goa | 1552 | poor navigation, wrecked |
| 1553 | Santo António | Manuel Tello de Menezes | barra of Lisbon | early 1553 | burned |
| 1553 | São Bento | Fernão de Alvares cabral | Terra do Natal | April 23, 1554 | overloaded |
| 1554 | São Boaventura | D Pedro de Mascaranhas | Barra de Goa | late 1554 | storm |
| 1554 | Santa Cruz «Burgalesa» | Belchior de Sousa | unknown | 1555 | unknown |
| 1554 | Victoria «Galega» | Francisco de Gouveia | Terceira Island | Aug 5, 1556 | unknown |
| 1555 | N Sra da Assunção «Algarvia, a Velha» | Jacome de Melo | Terceira Island | 1556 | storm |
| 1555 | Conceição «Algarvia, a Nova» | Francisco Nobre | Baixos de Pero dos Banhos | Aug 22, 1555 | poor navigation |
| 1557 | S Maria da Barca | D Luis Fernandes de Vasconcelos | close to ilha de São Lourenço | March 17, 1559 | unknown |
| 1557 | N Sra das Relíquias «Flamenga» | Antónia Mendes de Castro | São Tomé? | Aug 20, 1560 | unknown |
| 1557 | Águia | Francisco Barreto | Mombaça | Aug 20, 1561 | poor condition of ship |
| 1558 | N Sra da Graça | João Rodrigues Salema de Carvalho | between Terra do natal and Cape of Good Hope | Nov 24, 1559 | storm |
| 1560 | São Paulo | Rui de Melo da Câmara | Sumatra Island | Jan 22, 1561 | storm |
| 1562 | São Martinho | D. Jorge Manuel | unknown | 1563 | unknown |
| 1562 | Cedro | D Rodrigo (or Pedro) de Castro | unknown | 1563 | unknown |
| 1563 | N Sra da Graça | Diogo Lopes da Lima | Cape of Good Hope? | March 15, 1565 | unknown |
| 1563 | São Filipe | Vasco Lourenço de Barbuda | Barra de Goa | Sept 1563 | storm |
| 1564 | Flor de la Mar | Damião de Sousa | Mozambique | 1556 | poor condition of ship |
| 1565 | Tigre | Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos de Sousa | Mozambique | May 16, 1566 | poor navigation |
| 1572 | São Francisco | Pedro Leitão de Gamboa | unknown | April 23, 1573 | unknown |
| 1573 | Santa Clara | Luís de Alter | Brazil | 1575? | unknown |
| 1576 | São Jorge | Balthazar Pessanha | entry of the barra of Mozambique | 1576 | poor navigation? |
| 1577 | São Pedro | Manuel de Medeiros | Baixos das Chagas or Pero dos Banhos | 1578? | poor navigation? |
| 1577 | São João | Miguel de Arnide (or Arruda) | Baixos of Pero dos Banhos | 1578? | poor navigation |
| 1581 | São Pedro | Leonel de Lima | Parcel de Sofala | 1583 | poor condition of ship |
| 1582 | São Luís | Luís Caldera | Rio de Quelimane/Parcel de Sofala | 1582 | poor navigation |
| 1584 | Boa Viagem | Lourenço Soares de Melo | unknown | 1585 | overloaded |
| 1585 | Santiago | Fernão de Mendonça | Baixos da Judia | Aug 19-25, 1585 | poor navigation |
| 1585 | São Lourenço | Fernão (or Reimão) Falcão | Mozambique | 1586 | incapable to navigate |
| 1586 | Reis Magos | João Gago de Andrade | São Tomé | 1588? | overloaded |
| 1586 | Bom Jesus «Caranja» | António Gomes de Goes | India | end 1586? | wrecked |
| 1586 | São Salvador | Miguel de Abreu | Ormuz | 1587 | poor condition of ship |
| 1586 | N Sra das Relíquias | Francisco Carvalho (or Cavaleiro) | Barra de Goa | Jan 5, 1587 | overloaded |
| 1586 | São Filipe | João Trigueiros | close to the Azores | June 8, 1587 | captured by Francis Drake |
| 1587 | Santiago | Francisco de Brio Lobato | Terceira Island | Aug 14, 1588 | poor navigation |
| 1588 | São Tomé | Estevão de Veiga | Terra do Natal | March 17, 1589 | poor condition of ship |
| 1589 | Santo António | D João da Cunha | between Mozambique and India | 1589 | unknown |
| 1590 | Bom Jesus | Manuel de Sousa Coutinho | Baixos de Garajau | end of Feb, 1592 | overloaded? |
| 1590 | São Lucas | Rui Gomes da Grã | close to the Canarie islands or Madeira | end 1590 | unknown |
| 1590 | Espírito Santo | Diogo Pereira | in sight of Lisbon | Oct 28, 1590 | taken by the English |
| 1591 | São Bernardo (or Bartolomeu?) | Simão Vaz Telo | unknown | March 10, 1592 | overloaded |
| 1591 | Madre de Deus | Fernão de Mendonça Furtado | close to the Azores | Aug 15 or 19, 1592 | taken by the English |
| 1591 | Santa Cruz | António Teixeira de Macedo | close to the Azores | July 9, 1592 | burned to escape from the English |
| 1591 | São Luís | Diogo Nunes Gramaxo | Mozambique | 1592/1593? | poor condition of ship |
| 1592 | Santo Alberto | Julião de faria Cerveira | Penedo das Fontes, on the coast of Terra do Natal | March 26, 1593 | poor condition and overloading |
| 1592 | N Sra da Nazaré | Braz Correia | Mozambique | July 15, 1593 | storm and overloading |
| 1593 | Chagas | Francisco de Melo | close to Faial Island | June 22, 1594 | overloading and enemy attack |
| 1593 | São Bartolomeu | Lopo de Pina de Azavedo | unknown | April15, 1595 | unknown |
| 1593 | São Cristovão | António Teixeira de Macedo | between Mozambique and Goa | Aug 17, 1594 | poor condition |
| 1593 | São Pedro | Pedro Gonçalves | Pernambuco | Aug 4, 1594 | bad weather |
| 1594 | São Paulo | Sebastião Gonçalves de Arvelos | unknown | April 15, 1595 | overloaded? |
| 1595 | Madre de Deus | António Teixeira de Macedo | Cabo das Baixas | end of Jan 1595 | unknown |
| 1595 | N Sra da Luz | João de Saldanha | unknown | end Feb 1596 | overloading |
| 1595 | N Sra da Victória | João Rodrigues Carreiro (or Correia) | Mozambique | 1596 | overloading |
| 1595 | N Sra do Rosário | Gaspar Palha Lobo | Mozambique | April 8, 1597 | overloading |
| 1596 | S Sra de guadaloupe (or Madre de Deus) | D Luís da gama | Barra de Cochim | Jan 6, 1598 | burned before leaving |
| 1596 | São Francisco | Vasco Borges da Fonseca | Azores (São Miguel?) | Nov 17, 1597 | wrecked on the coast, burned, escaping the English |
| 1599 | N Sra do Castelo | Simão de Mendonça | Parcel de Sofala | 1599 | wrecked |