''Concepción'' was an early-16th-century Spanish

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, one of the five ships of the Magellan-Elcano expedition to the

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(the

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). The expedition, finding itself short-handed, burnt the ship in the Philippines in 1521.

History

The ''Concepción'' weighed 90 tons and cost 228,750 maravedis to construct. After leaving Seville on 10 August 1519, ''Concepción'''s crew consisted of 44 men, including

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Gaspar de Quesada and

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Juan Sebastían Elcano. The latter would complete the expedition on the carrack (which Luis De Mendoza captained while he was alive) in 1522, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.

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* Exploration ships Age of Discovery ships Magellan expedition 16th-century ships {{ship-stub