When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

The tower remembers explorer John Cabot. John Cabot - c.1450 - 1498. ... Cabot sailed west from Bristol on the 70-feet long Matthew with a crew of 18, hoping to find a route to Asia. ...

John Cabot’s celebrated ship dabbled in smuggling: author. It’s perhaps the most famous and important ship in Canadian history: the Matthew of Bristol, the 50-tonne vessel that carried Anglo ...

"As their fame grew and Cabot's declined, the misconception grew that it was they who had named the new land," said Rodney Broome. Rodney Broome is Bristol born and bred but moved to the States in ...