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Exploring the Straits, one of the remaining four ships, the Santiago, the abandoned fleet from Magellan, returned eastwards toward Spain. This part of the voyage took 38 days, causing the remaining four ships, the San Antonio, to lose their cargo and much supplies. It took over a month for them to cross the Strait of Magellan, during which the captains of one of the five ships with full supplies deserted and went home.
By this point, one of the five ships had deserted, but the remaining four began the voyage through the seas they had just discovered. On 10 August 1519, Magellan said goodbye to his wife and infant son, both of whom he would never see again, and the five-ship fleet set out.
In September 1519, Magellans fleet set sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, which was known at that time as the Sea of Oceans. The five-ship fleet then set out for the Philippine Archipelago, landing at the island of Cebu, where Magellan made friends with the natives and, struck by sudden religious fervor, sought to convert them to Christianity. With a cargo of spices, Magellans fleet attempted to set sail for Spain in December, only to discover that only one of their remaining two ships, Victoria, was fit to go to sea.
After being killed, Juan Sebastian Elcano took over command of the expedition, and with his few remaining members aboard one of the remaining two ships, completed the first circumnavigation of Earth by returning to Spain in 1522.
After killed, Sebastian del Cano burned Conception and took the remaining two ships and the 117 crew members. During a arduous 38-day passage across the Straits, there was another rebellion, this one peaceful, and by November, San Antonio was back at home across the Atlantic Ocean with the initial 270 crew members having begun to burn the name Ferdinand Magellan before authorities.
At the end of November, the remaining four ships left Ferdinand Magellans named strait of All Saints, and set out for the Atlantic. Later in March 1521, Ferdinand Magellans fleet reached Homonhom Island at the tip of the Philippines, carrying less than 150 of his men. Magellan never made it to the Spice Islands, but after losing yet another vessel from his fleet, two remaining ships finally reached the Moluccas on 5 November 1521.
Charles V used Magellans journey to bolster Spains claims over the Spice Islands, and followed with an armed fleet. In pursuit of fame and riches, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed from Spain in 1519 in a five-ship fleet to find the Western Sea Route to the Spice Islands. Ferdinand Magellan believed that he could find a shorter route to the Spice Islands by sailing westward, through the Atlantic Ocean, around South America, and through the Pacific.
Ferdinand Magellan is most famous for having planned and led a Spanish expedition in 1519 into the East Indies through the Pacific to establish a sea-trade route, during which he discovered an interoceanic passage that was later named after him, and achieved Europes first navigation of the Pacific from the Atlantic to Asia, named after him as Asiaticus. Along the way, he discovered what is today known as the Strait of Magellan, and became the first European to traverse the Pacific Ocean. Discovering what became known as the Straits of Magellan at southern Patagonia, as well as the Atlantic-Pacific crossing, the journey accomplished the ships purpose, which was to prove that it was possible to find a route to Asia by sailing westwards from Europe.
Ferdinand Magellan had proven not only that South America could round, and ships could travel the world by the Western Sea Route, but that trade winds and currents in the Pacific could be used just as well nearer home for ship advantage. In 1517, following an argument with the Spanish king, Charles I, Ferdinand Magellan left for Spain. On September 20, 1519, he sailed off with a fleet of five ships, all full-laden, but barely sufficient to sail the distances he proposed. Five ships, all full-laden, but barely sufficient to sail the distances he proposed.