Victoria (ship)
For other ships named Victoria see Victoria#Transport & NavalThe
Victoria was one of the five
ships of
Ferdinand Magellan. It was named after the church of Santa María de la Victoria de Triana, where Magellan took an oath of allegiance to
Charles of Spain.
She was the only ship to survive the
circumnavigation of the globe of
1519 to
1522. Only 18 of the 265 crew that the
expedition started with survived the trip. Magellan himself was killed in the
Philippines and never returned to
Europe.
The four ships that did not return were the following: the
Trinidad (tonnage 110, crew 55), the
San Antonio (tonnage 120, crew 60), the
Concepción (tonnage 90, crew 45) and the
Santiago (tonnage 75, crew 32). The
Trinidad was Magellan's flagship.
Victoria was classified as
nao (ship), as were all the others except Trinidad, which was a
caravel.
On
September 6,
1522, the
Victoria returned to
Sanlúcar de Barrameda,
Spain, with
Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 survivors of
Ferdinand Magellan's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to
circumnavigate the globe. One of the survivors was
Antonio Pigafetta, whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage around the world.
