San Antonio (ship)
The San Antonio was the largest of the five ships in Ferdinand Magellan's fleet for the first circumnavigation. However, the ship should not end the voyage.
Planning and construction
planning
The San Antonio was mentioned for the first time around 1505, when the Spanish king wanted to send a little more explorers and seafarers on long journeys. The ship was, for those times, a relatively large carrack with a large hold. Like most other ships at the time, she was to become a three-masted ship.
construction
Between 1506 and 1510, the San Antonio was finally built as planned, with three masts, six decks, a stern rudder and about 130 register tons.
history
The San Antonio hadn't made a really long voyage until the Spanish crown Ferdinand Magellan made the ship available for the first circumnavigation of the world. So the small fleet of five ships, apart from the San Antonio there was also the Trinidad , the Victoria , the Conception and the Santiago , set sail from Seville on August 10, 1519, with a course for north West Africa. It was not until around the 12th parallel north that Magellan turned west, towards America. After a stop in the bay of Rio de Janeiro , the ships looked for the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific . When they found them, Ferdinand Magellan sent the San Antonio and the Concepción to scout the road ahead. But of the two ships sent out, only the Concepción returns under Serrano. Another mutiny had taken place on the San Antonio after a first mutiny was overthrown in April 1520 near Puerto San Julián . The new captain Álvaro de Mezquita was arrested. The largest ship with the richest supplies deserted and returned to Spain on May 6, 1521. The initiator was Gomez, the pilot. The San Antonio's circumnavigation of the world was already over in the Strait of Magellan (which was later named after Ferdinand Magellan, the discoverer of the street). Since the Santiago had already sunk while searching for the passage, Magellan only had three ships left to continue.
Technical specifications
- Length: approx. 35 meters
- Width: 10 to 12 meters
- Loading space: 130 register tonnes
Ship data
- Name: San Antonio
- Launched: between 1507 and 1510
useful information
The San Antonio was the largest of the five ships on Magellan's voyage.
The first captain of the San Antonio , Juan de Cartagena, was abandoned on the coast of Patagonia after the mutiny of San Julian with the ship priest Sanchez de Reina.
literature
- Antonio Pigafetta: An eyewitness account of the first circumnavigation . Edition Erdmann 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-811-6
From Wikipedia article Victoria (1519)
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonio Pigafetta: Magellan's circumnavigation of the world 1519–1522 Edited and translated by Robert Grün. Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn, Gütersloh, p. 80