Victoria
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Spanish ship, the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world
Key facts
- Name
- Victoria
- Namesake
- Santa Maria de la Victoria
- Owner
- Crown of Spain
- Builder
- Ondarroa
- Fate
- Disappeared on a route to Seville from the Antilles, 1570
- Notes
- First ship to circumnavigate the globe.
- Type
- Carrack
- Tonnage
- 85 tons
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Victoria
- Image
- Nao Victoria.jpg
- Length
- 28
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- beam
- 7.5
- Commons category
- Victoria (ship, 1519)
- draft
- 2
- gross tonnage
- 3999
- service entry
- 1518-00-00
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Article
Victoria or Nao Victoria (Spanish for "Victory") was a carrack famed as the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Victoria was part of the Spanish expedition to the Moluccas (now Indonesia's Maluku Islands) commanded by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
The carrack (Spanish: nao) was built at a Spanish shipyard in Ondarroa. Along with the four other ships, she was given to Magellan by King Charles I of Spain (later Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire). Victoria was an 85-tonel ship with an initial crew of about 42. The expedition's flagship and Magellan's own command was the carrack Trinidad. The other ships were the carrack San Antonio, the carrack Concepción, and the caravel Santiago.