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She was the only ship to survive the Circumnavigation of the globe of 1519 to 1522 . Only 18 of the 265 crew that the Expedition started with survived the trip. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines and never returned to Europe . The four ships that did not return were the following: the ''Trinidad'' (tonnage 110, crew 55), the ''San Antonio'' (tonnage 120, crew 60), the ''Concepción'' (tonnage 90, crew 45) and the ''Santiago'' (tonnage 75, crew 32). The ''Trinidad'' was Magellan's flagship. On September 6 , 1522 , the ''Victoria'' returned to Sanlúcar De Barrameda , Spain , with Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 survivors of Ferdinand Magellan 's 265-man expedition, becoming the first ship to Circumnavigate The Globe . One of the survivors was Antonio Pigafetta , whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage around the world. |