Portuguese 1493/4 voyage?

I once read that the Portuguese sent out a 'fleet' in the 10 year gap between Diaz reaching the Cape and Da Gama reaching India, but this 'fleet' was lost, as happened a lot in those days. But try as I might I can't recall where I read it, and the interweb is not being helpful.

Has anyone else ever heard of this?
 
I think he's a bit late, IIUC he didn't go missing until after 1500.
He meant you (or your source) may be confusing the more notorious disappearance of Lavrador with that alleged disappeared expedition between Dias and Gama.

It is a long time between one and the other so one could think that something might have gone wrong in-between. What has gone wrong was João II's death in 1495.

But when an expedition was finally setup in 1497 it didn't go unnoticed. I don't know of any expedition to India being prepared and sent out in the open so if there was one it was made in secrecy, which doesn't make much sense in this case.

And it's not that João II sat idly neglecting the India project in his later years. He was still getting reports from Pêro da Covilhã...
 
Perhaps, I'm beginning to suspect that I read it in that 100% statement of fact 1421 by Gavin Menzies. I'm so ashamed.
 
Perhaps, I'm beginning to suspect that I read it in that 100% statement of fact 1421 by Gavin Menzies. I'm so ashamed.
Eheh... I was curious, perhaps there had been a low-profile failed expedition that I didn't know of. But yeah, if it was Menzies, forget about it. :)
 
It's the sort of thing he'd do, invent a secret lost voyage to 'prove' his conspiracy theories.
 
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