Lasea

Lasea appears once in Scripture in Luke's narration of Paul's voyage to Rome aboard an Alexandrian grain ship: "And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea" (Acts 27:8). The Alexandrian ship had spent weeks working westward against contrary winds and reached the south coast of Crete by late autumn — too late in the sailing season to safely continue. Lasea was a minor port city on the southern Cretan coast about five miles east of Fair Havens, identified by ruins near the modern Plaka. From here the centurion overruled Paul's warning to winter, with disastrous results.