In the spring of 1969 a British sailor named John Fairfax was crossing the Atlantic alone when he reportedly observed two brilliant lights on the horizon.

The sailor would name a price.

In 1526, a sailor from Honfleur named Pierre Caunay sailed to Sumatra.

In the 1880s a former sailor named John Frazier dug a well in the area.

A sailor named him Tug.

Early Portuguese sailors named the island Los Barbados - 'bearded ones' - after the local whiskery fig trees.

Its birthplace had been above the fathomless stretches of the sea that future sailors would name Ardent.

During her imprisonment, a Portuguese sailor named Manuel Eynesso (or Enes) said he knew the language and translated her story.

Davis and a stranded British sailor named John Young became important military advisors to King Kamehameha.

The island lay undiscovered till 1502, when a Portuguese sailor named it after Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.