The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet. Last year marked the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s ...

Ferdinand Magellan set sail in the hope of finding ... by a poisoned arrow in the Philippines in April 1521. Two of his ships did, however, and The Victoria then continued west until they reached ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... He left southern Spain with five ships in 1519. Five months later, Magellan reached Rio de Janeiro in what is now Brazil.

He points to Magellan’s 1520 voyage to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which left with five ships and 270 men and returned with one ship and 40 men. “I just found incredible the stories ...