Sir Humphrey Gilbert, moving southward with three…
August 1583 CE
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, moving southward with three ships, loses the largest of them on August 29 and two days later turns homeward.
He is last seen near the Azores during a great storm in the Atlantic, shouting to his companion vessel, “We are as near heaven by sea as by land.”
Gilbert's ship is then swallowed by the sea.