What was the name of Magellan's fleet on his voyage around the world?

vadeking

The 'Armada de Molucca" consisting of the ships: Trinidad, the San Antonio, the Concepcion, the Victoria, and the Santiago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan Mar 18 04, 11:37 PM

philsgirl

Yay! vadeking, great job with the extra info. Props to you! Mar 18 04, 11:52 PM

DaveLister

The question actually betrays a commonly held misconception, namely that Magellan himself circumnavigated the world, which he did not - he was killed in the Phillipines in April 1521. Of the ships which set sail, only one - the Vitoria (sic) - made it back, arriving in September 1522 with a skeleton crew commanded by the Basque navigator Juan Sebastian de Elcano (a.k.a. del Cano) who had originally been master of the Concepcion, and who managed to survive being implicated in an earlier attempted mutiny against Magellan. Mar 19 04, 10:46 AM

philsgirl

DaveLister is correct about Magellan not sailing around the world. Guess I should have finished reading the book before I posted the question. I've only ever seen it as Victoria; but I was wrong about the around the world part. Mar 19 04, 11:12 AM

mochyn

Magellan was in fact the first person to circumnavigate the world as he was already in the Philippines when he was asked to go to Spain .He just took 2 journeys to do it http://web.ukonline.co.uk/omaltby/seafarers/magellan.htm Mar 19 04, 5:45 PM