 Nova attempted to take her out repeatedly, but the heavy-laden ship kept running into problems, forcing him to return to the island, repair and try again.The ship and her frustrated captain were still stuck in Mozambique when they were found in February 1507—almost exactly one year after "Flor do Mar" left India—by the outgoing 8th India armada under the command of Tristão da Cunha.Cunha ordered his crews to help repair the ship back to seaworthy shape, unload the ship's spice cargo onto another Portugal-bound transport (under the command of António de Saldanha) and then annexed the empty "Flor do Mar" and her captain into his own India-bound armada.