YOU SAID:
In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea, and he told us of his life in the land of submarines.
INTO JAPANESE
私が生まれた町には海に出航した男が住んでいました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
In the town where I was born there lived a man who departed in the sea.
INTO JAPANESE
私が生まれた町には海に出た男が住んでいました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
A man in the sea lived in the town where I was born.
INTO JAPANESE
海の男は私が生まれた町に住んでいました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The man at the sea lived in the town where I was born.
INTO JAPANESE
海の男は私が生まれた町に住んでいました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The man at the sea lived in the town where I was born.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.