# The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage Date: 1497 ## The fact In late November 1497 the fleet watered at the bay later called Mossel Bay, with barter and a stone marker. The dated watering is not the 1498 Mozambique clash and not Calicut. [Vasco da Gama](/people/vasco-da-gama)’s documented role is: He used a watering place later called Mossel Bay, with a padrão and barter. Local Khoikhoi contact was mixed; he did not found a town. Do not twin this with Mozambique hostility. A watering bay is not a 1498 east-coast clash. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Vasco da Gama's documented role is: He used a watering place later called Mossel Bay, with a padrão and barter. Local Khoikhoi contact was mixed; he did not found a town. ## Context Dias had used related shores. Local pastoralists, unnamed sailors, and a padrão already sit in the file. A watering is not unique colonisation of the Cape. Later town names are not 1497. Named others on the file: Unnamed crews, local Khoikhoi as contact, and [Dias](/people/wellington-dias) as predecessor of the shore share the stop. The public setting is the file around 1497-11-25. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage. The setting of The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage is the public file around 1497-11-25. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Mozambique hostility. A watering bay is not a 1498 east-coast clash. Mixed effects of The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage are separate paths. ## Evidence and sources The later journal English and Britannica independently locate a São Brás watering on the outward voyage. Official: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, African watering places (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Journal of the First Voyage — São Brás English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, African watering places (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Journal of the First Voyage — São Brás English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg). Official or archival record: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, African watering places (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving industrial-policy path: a dated oceanic logistics stop. Complex shared seamanship. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated watering stop put a public logistical waypoint into the first-voyage journal. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. The attached driver is industrial-policy-activism. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 1497 São Brás watering under Gama. Not established: that a later town is this stop. Established: a sourced public record of The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage under 1497-11-25. Established: a sourced public record of The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage under 1497-11-25. Shared responsibility is part of The fleet waters at Mossel Bay (São Brás) on the outward voyage. Naming Vasco da Gama does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1497-11-25 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## People - Vasco da Gama: https://factrail.ai/people/vasco-da-gama ## Drivers - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-mossel-bay-1497