The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet. Last year marked the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s ...

AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from ...

And a computer simulation also suggests that punctures in the hull the size of A4 pieces of paper led to the ship's demise. Atlantic Productions/Magellan The stern of the ship, which broke off ...

This was how the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano described the outcome of his three-month-long northward advance along the ...