Armada de Molucca

The Armada de Molucca was the name of the Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan in the first expedition to sail to the Spice Islands from Europe and the first world circumnavigation. The fleet sailed from Spain in 1519 across the Atlantic and then Pacific Oceans. After Magellan's death in the Philippines in 1521, Juan Sebastian Elcano took command of the fleet which arrived in the Spice Islands a few months later, and led the expedition back to Spain across the Indian Ocean where they arrived in 1522.

The fleet, provided by King Charles V, included five ships: the Trinidad (110 tons, crew 55) under Magellan's command, the San Antonio (120 tons; crew 60) commanded by Juan de Cartageña, the Concepcion (90 tons, crew 45) commanded by Gaspar de Quesada, the Santiago (75 tons, crew 32) commanded by Juan Rodriguez Serrano and the Victoria (85 tons, crew 43) commanded by Luiz Mendoza, which carried supplies and provisions. The Santiago was a caravel, while the others were rated as carracks (Spanish "carraca" or "nao"; Portuguese "nau").

The five ships departed from Seville on 10 August 1519 and left Spain on 20 September 1519. They traversed the Atlantic, then rounded the southern tip of South America through the Strait of Magellan, and then sailed the Pacific Ocean, stopping over in Guam before arriving in the Philippines in April 1521 and finally the Spice Islands on 6 November 1521. It took them over two years to reach the Moluccas since they departed from Spain, and with only two of the original ships remaining (Trinidad and Victoria). On 6 September 1522, the Victoria returned to Spain, led by Juan Sebastian Elcano, one of the two ships to survive the voyage, and the only one to circumnavigate the world.San Antonio deserted the fleet somewhere during the crossing of the strait of Magellan, and returned to Spain on November 20, 1520.

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