For other ships named Victoria see Victoria#Transport & Naval

The Victoria was one of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan. It was named after the church of Santa María de la Victoria de Triana, where Magellan took an oath of allegiance to Charles of Spain.

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.

Victoria was classified as nao (ship), as were all the others except Trinidad, which was a caravel.

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.

Exploration ships

Victoria (loď) | Victoria (Schiff) | Nao Victoria | ビクトリア号 | Victoria