Which was the first ship to reach cochin ?

Question

it may be a foreign one

Answer 1

The Ship captained by Vasco da Gama.

Answer 2

"I live on a large Island made from the bottom of the sea. It is called Willingdon Island, after the present Viceroy of India. From the upper floor of my house, I look down on the finest harbour in the East". Thus spoke Sir Robert Bristow proudly in his long address on the BBC on 11-8-1935. He was invited to speak in recognition of his successful endeavour that changed the course of an old port. Through a long saga of ambition, skill, determination and perseverance, he had created a modern port of Cochin, with the safest inner harbour. The first ship entered and berthed along side the new harbour, exactly 75 years ago, this day, on 26-5-1928.

When Sir Bristow came to Cochin in 1920, it was a port where the ships were berthed offshore with cargo loading and unloading being done using lighters. The ships were exposed to all the violent forces of the open sea. Bristow was a visionary who foresaw that ports which would take ships alongside the berths only would have a future. When he left in 1941 he had transformed Cochin as the safest harbour in the peninsula, where ships berthed alongside the newly reclaimed inner harbour, equipped with a long array of steam cranes.

The sun, which had been hidden all morning, emerged from the clouds, and around it shone a perfect circular rainbow. Before the inner channel was declared ready for navigation, or was even properly marked with buoys, Capt. Bullen of the steam ship `Padma', coming down from Bombay on May 26, 1928, sailed calmly into the harbour against explicit signals from the Port officer. He proceeded to pick up every bale of cargo, which the Port could offer and which could be crammed into the vessel without sinking it. The modern Port of Cochin was opened to the world.

Answer 3

From where? Malibu? Of course it was foreign. You don't 'reach Cochin' from Cochin. do you, you great clod?