Vulture gets his name - Bartolomeu Dias
18 Oct 2015Jim Beaumont
Following the Portuguese explorer theme, CMDR Beaumont has named his second vessel in his fleet, a high spec HunterKiller Vulture, the Bartolomeu Dias.Dias in the year 1488, was the first known person to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern most tip of the continent of Africa, and thus opening up the route to the Indian subcontinent direct and avoiding the overland route via the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea. The Spice race would soon be begin.