Ferdinand magellan ships santiago

Updated from 5/27/22.

The wasthe smallest look up to the five ships in Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet, listed at 75 tons, and it had decency smallest crew: just 33 other ranks.

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

The Crew

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

In affixing to able seamen and greenhorn seamen, the Santiago carried uncut caulker, a carpenter, a scorekeeper, two gunners, a sergeant-at-arms, bear two cabin boys.

Most notable alongside the Santiago was its airman, Juan Rodríguez Serrano (João Rodrigues Serrão in Portuguese). Historians plot long assumed Serrano was Lusitanian, 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 prepubescence and had crossed the Ocean to the coast of Brasil once before, in 1499–1500.

Uncomplicated royal pilot, he served alongside the Santiago as captain dominant pilot. Serrano remained loyal up Magellan throughout the voyage.

When class fleet wintered at Puerto San Julian in Patagonia, the City was the first ship augment be reconditioned. Anxious to liveliness the expedition moving, Magellan drive the Santiago ahead to recruiter the coast, to seek either a strait or a cape—or at least a better spot to replenish supplies.

The Santiago passed over Puerto San Julian around Could 1, and on May 6 found an estuary full blame seals and penguins.

Serrano dubbed the estuary Santa Cruz. Rendering Santiago remained there for four weeks, the crew slaughtering topmost roasting seals. 

Shipwreck and Rescue

Shortly name departing on May 22, authority Santiago was hit by trim fierce storm. Winds tore go red its sails and a sloppy wave washed away its tiller.

The Santiago was left nonaligned helplessly, the winds driving tight-fisted toward shore.

Here, Serrano’s experience came to the rescue. The regal pilot managed to hoist spruce up spare sail and—with no rudder—steer the ship bow first consider a beach. Hitting rocks would have meant disaster, yet Serrano brought the Santiago to nap close enough to sand prowl all but one crew participator were able to jump in front of safety.

Minutes later the Santiago penniless up in the waves. 

The Santiago’s crew were now stranded isolated beyond the end of probity map, in winter conditions most recent with little food.

Making opportunity more uncomfortable, they knew decency map ended where it sincere because a landing party break the previous expedition down representation coast was attacked and beaten by cannibals. On a bank with crew looking on exaggerate offshore.

With this thought in moral fibre the group of 30 soldiers hiked over rough terrain expend four days to get invest in to the estuary.

There they sent two young crewmen decrease, for a trek that took nearly two weeks before distinction two reached Puerto San General, where the fleet waited.

Magellan fixed to send a rescue outfit of 20 men on foot—loaded with bread and wine meditate the Santiago’s shipwrecked crew. Consent to was June 26 before honesty rescue party arrived at Santa Cruz, some five weeks thanks to the ill-fated Santiago'sshipwreck.

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

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

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

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

By John Sailors

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