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Ferdinand Magellan - Part 2: The Departure of the Fleet
Salt spray laced the morning as the fleet slipped from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on the twentieth of September, fifteen nineteen. The air carried the metallic bite of tar and the smell of wet hemp. Five carracks and naos rode the estuary like coiled beasts, each timber’s flex and each rope’s creak promising voyages yet unmade. The ships were named and numbered in men’s memories: Trinidad rode as the command ship, while San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago followed.
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