Trinidad (ship)

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The Trinidad was the flagship of Ferdinand Magellan on the first circumnavigation of the world. The ship never returned to Spain.

Planning and construction

Planning

The Trinidad was planned as a carrack, as a three-masted sailing ship full. Together, they should serve for the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan with four other ships, the Victoria, the San Antonio, the Concepcion and Santiago.

Construction

The Trinidad was in 1519 built the way you planned it. Presented Just before departure, the Spanish crown Magellan the ship.

History

The Trinidad should not complete the first circumnavigation of the world. On August 10, 1519 a small fleet of five ships from Seville to sea. This fleet was Magellan's ships, led by the Trinidad. The first ships sailed just to the west, then they turned to the south. On board the Trinidad was rumored, Magellan was a Portuguese treacherous, because he headed for Africa, and Africa belonged to the Portuguese. Only after about the 12th degree of north latitude, he turned the ships to West southwest. After a break in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, they sailed south. Approximately on the 50th latitude south Magellan sought the passage to the Pacific, said Santiago was lost. When they had found the Strait of Magellan ( which was only later after Ferdinand Magellan, the discoverer of the road, named), they crossed them. This deserted San Antonio. Then she headed for the Moluccas. In the Philippines, Magellan died, and there were only two ships left: the Trinidad and the Victoria. This was split: the Trinidad tried to find the way back, on which they had come, the Victoria tried to, then to reach the Cape of Good Hope on the west coast of Africa along back to Spain. Only the Victoria made ​​it back to Spain.

The failure of the Trinidad

The 53 men of Trinidad, who had remained in Tidore to repair their ship, wanted to go back to America to Europe. When crossing the North Pacific they came to 42 ° north, but then forced a twelve day prolonged storm to repentance. In Ternate, the neighboring island of Tidore, a Portuguese fleet of seven caravels had now landed with 300 men and had a fortress built.

The only 18 survivors of the Trinidad were there the end of October, beginning of November 1522 the Portuguese. The Trinidad was just a wreck on Ternate with her ​​cargo sank cloves eight days after the arrival. The wood of the Stuck in the mud Trinidad used the Portuguese to build their fortress on Ternate, which was in the making.

The crew members were thrown into prison for several years. Six reached as prisoners to Lisbon 1527. They were after the survivors on the Victoria, the first people who completed a circumnavigation of the globe. Only three of them, Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa, Gines de Mafra and Guillermo Morales came back on August 4, 1527 to Spain.

List of survivors of the Trinidad

  • Juan Rodriguez arrived from Seville ( El Sordo ), 1525 in Lisbon
  • Hans Vargue, German, died in Lisbon in imprisonment

About Lisbon ( January 1527 ) to imprisonment in August 1527 returned to Spain:

  • Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa
  • Gines de Mafra
  • Guillermo Morales

After Italy returned:

  • Leon Pancaldo of Savona, Italian, arrived in the spring of 1527 was the last in Lisbon, partly as a stowaway.
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