Concepción (carrack)

Concepción was an early-16th-century Spanish carrack, one of the five ships of the Magellan-Elcano expedition to the Spice Islands (the Moluccas). The expedition, finding itself short-handed, burnt the ship in the Philippines in 1521.

"Concepción (ship)" redirects here. For the American Civil War ship sold to Chile and renamed Concepción, see CSS Robert E. Lee.

History

The Concepción weighed 90 tons and cost 228,750 maravedis to construct.[1] After leaving Seville on 10 August 1519, Concepción's crew consisted of 44 men, including Captain Gaspar de Quesada and boatswain Juan Sebastían Elcano. The latter would complete the expedition on the carrack Victoria (which Luis De Mendoza captained while he was alive) in 1522, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.[2]

References
  1. Fernández de Navarrete 1837, p. 3.
  2. Fernández de Navarrete 1837, pp. 17-19.


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