PREVIEW

The Nao Victoria leaves the Tyne under threatening skies at low tide, going under the tilted Millenium Bridge on her way to Chatham Docks

This is a replica of the ship which first sailed around the World, enduring the greatest maritime feat of all times. The original Nao Victoria, commanded by Juan Sebastian Elcano, left Seville in 1519 and returned to the same city in 1522, after circumnavigating the globe for the first time in History

This replica was built in Spain in 1991. Previously, a long process of historical research was carried out, directed by Ignacio Fernandez Vial, the ship’s designer and builder, to design the shape of the ship and define its characteristics. An exhaustive study, based on documentary sources, chronicles, nautical treaties from the 16th century and iconography of the era, allowed to accurately reproducing the original ship’s main dimensions, spars, sails, and equipment