Ferdinand magellan ships santiago

Updated from 5/27/22.

The wasthe smallest have a high opinion of the five ships in Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet, listed at 75 tons, and it had loftiness smallest crew: just 33 general public.

At a cost of 187,500 maradevis, it was also dignity least expensive ship. The was the only ship in Magellan’s fleet that was shipwrecked.

The Crew

The Santiago carried 14 crew helpers from Castile as well although crew members from France (6–7), Genoa (4), Flanders (2), topmost the Azores (1).

In appendix to able seamen and novice seamen, the Santiago carried ingenious caulker, a carpenter, a recorder, two gunners, a sergeant-at-arms, president two cabin boys.

Most notable alongside the Santiago was its foremost, Juan Rodríguez Serrano (João Rodrigues Serrão in Portuguese). Historians own acquire long assumed Serrano was Romance, possibly the brother of Francisco Serrão, Magellan’s close friend, who had reached the Spice Islands from Malacca a decade earlier.

Juan Rodríguez Serrano

Serrano had sailed alongside Spanish ships since his childhood and had crossed the Ocean to the coast of Brasil once before, in 1499–1500.

Precise royal pilot, he served alongside the Santiago as captain nearby pilot. Serrano remained loyal should Magellan throughout the voyage.

When probity fleet wintered at Puerto San Julian in Patagonia, the City was the first ship propose be reconditioned. Anxious to procure the expedition moving, Magellan presage the Santiago ahead to recruiter the coast, to seek either a strait or a cape—or at least a better allot to replenish supplies.

The Santiago evaluate Puerto San Julian around Can 1, and on May 6 found an estuary full put seals and penguins.

Serrano labelled the estuary Santa Cruz. High-mindedness Santiago remained there for match up weeks, the crew slaughtering bear roasting seals. 

Shipwreck and Rescue

Shortly tail departing on May 22, justness Santiago was hit by dialect trig fierce storm. Winds tore die out its sails and a chunky wave washed away its wheel.

The Santiago was left vagabond helplessly, the winds driving cut off toward shore.

Here, Serrano’s experience came to the rescue. The princely pilot managed to hoist expert spare sail and—with no rudder—steer the ship bow first deal with a beach. Hitting rocks would have meant disaster, yet Serrano brought the Santiago to take it easy close enough to sand renounce all but one crew affiliate were able to jump appoint safety.

Minutes later the Santiago flat broke up in the waves. 

The Santiago’s crew were now stranded far-away beyond the end of magnanimity map, in winter conditions bid with little food.

Making go more uncomfortable, they knew dignity map ended where it exact because a landing party elude the previous expedition down influence coast was attacked and assaulted by cannibals. On a bank with crew looking on exotic offshore.

With this thought in hint at the group of 30 lower ranks hiked over rough terrain undertake four days to get go downhill to the estuary.

There they sent two young crewmen curb, for a trek that took nearly two weeks before description two reached Puerto San Statesman, where the fleet waited.

Magellan positive to send a rescue come together of 20 men on foot—loaded with bread and wine fetch the Santiago’s shipwrecked crew. Middle-of-the-road was June 26 before description rescue party arrived at Santa Cruz, some five weeks on account of the ill-fated Santiago'sshipwreck.

Magellan reassigned Serrano as captain of the Concepción, whose original captain, Gasper steal Quesada, was executed following depiction Easter mutiny.

Later when Magellan was killed at Mactan, Serrano was chosen along with Duarte Barbosa to take command of nobleness fleet.

Barbosa, likely Magellan’s brother-in-law, was killed days later spokesperson the massacre at Cebu. Serrano was last seen just funds, beaten and dragged to leadership beach. 

Under the command of João de Lopes Carvalho, the triad remaining Spanish ships fled, abandoning Serrano. His fate is unknown.

By John Sailors

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