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SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA galleon

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:20 pm

García Jofre de Loaísa (1490 – July 20, 1526) was a Spanish explorer, who was ordered by King Carlos I of Spain to organize an expedition in Asia, known as the Loaísa Expedition. https://kripkit.com/garca-jofre-de-loasa/

Which in 1525 was followed by the western route to colonize the Spice Islands in the East Indies, crossing on the way to the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Onboard were more than 450 people, including various types of merchants and administrators, determined to found permanent Spanish settlements in the Spanish East Indies.
A fleet of seven ships participated in the expedition: SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA, ESPIRITU SANTO, ANUNCIADA, SAN GABRIEL, SANTA MARIA DEL PARRAL, SAN LESMES and SANTIAGO. Jofre de Loaísa was appointed captain with Juan Sebastián Elcano, who had arrived in the Spice Islands in 1521 with the Magellan expedition. The fleet sailed from La Coruña on July 24, 1525, and reached the Patagonian coast in January 1526 with less than two ships that had separated from the group. In the following weeks, the fleet continued to gather and disperse due to strong winds in an attempt to enter the Strait of Magellan. Two ships were shipwrecked and one turned back to the Atlantic deserting the expedition. In the end, there were four ships that, in bad weather, reached the Pacific Ocean in May, before being separated again, and this time definitely, by a strong storm. One of the Galleons, the SAN LESMES, disappeared. The SANTIAGO headed north and with an astonishing journey of 10,000km she reached the Pacific coast of Mexico in July 1526, completing the first voyage from Europe to the west coast of North America. The third ship, the SANTA MARIA DEL PARRAL, sailed across the Pacific and reached Sangir off the north coast of Celebes, where the ship was run ashore and her crew killed or enslaved by the natives. Four of them were rescued in 1528 by another Spanish expedition that arrived from Mexico. The Galleon SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA was the only ship to reach the Spice Islands in September 1526. Some explorers on the expedition died while crossing the Pacific. Loaísa died of scurvy on July 30, 1526, Elcano died a few weeks later, Alonso de Salazar died after a month, while Yñigez reached the Visayas and Mindanao Islands in the Philippines and the Moluccas, but died there of food poisoning. De la Torre anchored in Indonesia to await help from Spain. Only Andrés de Urdaneta and 24 other men survived the landing on the Spice Islands, where they were captured by the Portuguese, who had arrived from their outposts in the East Indies.
Finally Urdaneta and some others managed to return to Spain in 1536 escorted by the Portuguese army in India (Armadas da Índia). The fate of the SAN LESMES is told in Greg Scowen's conspiracy thriller The Spanish Helmet. (Later it was found out that it not a Spanish helmet was, but a bell, the inscription on the bell is in the Tamil language.)
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Alonso de Salazar the discoverer of the Marshall Islands.
Toribio Alonso de Salazar, (died 5 September 1526) born in Biscay, was a Spanish navigator of Basque origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on August 21, 1526.
De Salazar was part of the Fray García Jofre de Loaísa's expedition from Spain to the Spice Islands in 1525, the second in history to cross the Pacific Ocean, after the Magalhães-Elcano circumnavigation of the globe. De Salazar took command of SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA, the last of seven ships to survive the voyage, after the deaths of Loaísa and Juan Sebastián Elcano. He sighted the Bokak Atoll in the Marshall Islands en route to Guam, the Philippine Islands, and finally the Moluccas. After one month they traveled to the united states of America??, he also died of scurvy shortly after having left Guam on 5 September 1526 and was succeeded by Martín Íñiguez de Carquizano.
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Only Andrés de Urdaneta and 24 other men survived to land in the Spice Islands. They returned to Spain in 1536 in the Portuguese India Armada and under Portuguese guard to complete the second world circumnavigation in history. One of the survivors was Hans von Aachen, who previously served as a gunner on the VICTORIA under Magellan and Elcano, becoming the first man to circumnavigate twice.
In Watercraft Philately Jan/Feb. 1989 page 52 is given on the SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA.
She was the flagship of a fleet of seven ships dispatched by Charles V of Spain in 1525 to seize the Spice Islands from the Portuguese. The expedition was a disaster, three ships were lost in the stormy South Atlantic, then two more during the first week into the Pacific. Another was so damaged it was sent to Mexico for repairs.
Only the SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA under Alonso de Salazar command continued on its mission.
On 21 August 1526, Salazar passed Taongi atoll, which he named San Barthaleme. This was the first appearance of the Marshall Islands on European sea charts.
Arriving in the Spice Islands, Salazar (not correct he died already before arrival in the Spice Islands.) began a bombardment 0n the Portuguese positions, but the concussion of her own guns opened the seams on SANTA MARIA DE LA VICTORIA. Setting the sinking ship afire. The crew fled ashore, where they continued to harass de Portuguese for over two years before their capture.

Marshall Islands 1988 25c sg 185, Scott 191. 1993 32c sg? , Scott 450. 1996 55c sg?, Scott 607e and 55c sg?, Scott 605r
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