 In one of the first recorded instances of a naval line of battle, Gama's spice naus and escort caravels sailed in a line end-to-end, concentrating all their immense firepower as they passed against the twenty large Arab ships of Cojambar, before they could get organized, sinking a number of them and doing immense damage to the remainder.After the battle, the Portuguese returned to Cannanore.On 30 October, 1502, Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut on the Malabar coast for the second time.