Historic New Castle is bringing Tall Ships from different parts of the world here to Delaware
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More new sponsors! Thank you to Zollie's Jazz Cucina and Oaxaca Bar Grill & Margarita Garden Don't miss the chance to highlight your business via a Nao Trinidad sponsorship. Contact out [email protected]
She's heading our way very soon! All are welcome to tour the ship beginning 9/19 and continuing through 9/22. Tickets will be available when you arrive or by going to: https://tickets.naotrinidad.org/content
The famed Nao Trinidad has docked in New Bedford. Get ready to explore this floating museum.
More new sponsors! Thank you to Zollie's Jazz Cucina and Oaxaca Bar Grill & Margarita Garden Don't miss the chance to highlight your business via a Nao Trinidad sponsorship. Contact out [email protected]
Less than two weeks away!
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Get your party tickets today for Friday 9/20 onboard Nao Trinidad!
Thank you to our most recent sponsors for the visit of the Nao Trinidad! Delaware River and Bay Authority, New Castle Community Partnership and Zollie's Jazz Cucina!
Don't forget to get your tickets for the onboard party on 9/20 and to take a deck tour.
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We have new sponsors for the visit of the Nao Trinidad! It's not too late to join with others in supporting this event! Thank you to Ameriprise Financial Services, The Trustees of the New Castle Common, Wilmington Tug, Texas Roadhouse Grill and the Terry House Bed and Breakfast!
Get your party tickets today for Friday 9/20 onboard Nao Trinidad!
I don't think I would have survived the voyage with Magellan on Nao Trinidad! Look at this video from August 9, 2024! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/LMYX8EbjRB4rbNfk/
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In need to volunteers to welcome visitors aboard the Nao Trinidad. 9/20-9/22.
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A sad ending for the original Nao Trinidad, but the 1519 replica will definitely arrive in Historic New Castle, ready for visitors on September 19th!
The Trinidad was the best and also the most inexpensive of the five ships (Victoria, Concepcion, Santiago, Trinidad and San Antonio), since its price (270,000 maravedies, approximately $810 in modern currency)
Of these five ships, one was lost at sea (Santiago), one abandoned the expedition (San Antonio) in South America and returned to Spain, one was damaged and then burned by the crew (Concepcion) and lost at Cebu in the Phillipines on 21 December 1521 when Magellan was killed in battle.
The two remaining ships were the Victoria, with Juan Sebastian Elcano as captain and the Trinidad, with GĂłmez de Espinosa as captain. They made their way to the Moloccus and then attempted to return to Spain by sailing west. However the Trinidad began taking on water and needed to be overhauled. The Victoria was not large enough to accommodate all the surviving crew. So the Victoria and some of the crew sailed west for Spain, leaving the Trinidad to fend for themselves.
The Trinidad, under Captain Espinosa, docked in the Moluccas for just a little more than four months as she was being repaired. When the ship was ready, the crew attempted to cross the Pacific again.
Facing strong storms, with almost no food nor water on board, and practically all of the crew members sick or dying, Espinosa was forced to return to the island of Cyco, but was prevented by bad water from berthing.
The next day, four sailors disembarked the Trinidad for fear of the uncertainties that lay ahead on the return to Spain. One decided, however, to reboard the Trinidad, while three remained. Four years later, the only survivor, was rescued in Rota by the Laoisa expedition enroute to the Spice Islands.
The Trinidad never made it home. It was captured by the Portuguese, and was eventually wrecked in a storm while at anchor under Portuguese control.
The voyage of the Nao Trinidad continues in Antonio Pigafetta's diary...
"We arrived at an island called Cimbobon...trees there produce leaves that are alive when they fall and walk. On both sides near the steam, they have two feet...when one touches them they run away.
I kept one in a box for nine days. When I opened the box, the leaf went hither and thither. I believe the leaves live on nothing but air."
Pigafetta's voyage diary gets more fantastical and bizarre with each chapter. In this section, we find Magellan's ships visiting the islands of Zubu and Mazaua, near modern day Philippines.
.."large sea snails are found there, beautiful to the sight, but who kill whales. The whales swallow them whole and, once inside the whale, the snail sheds it's shell and consumes the whale's heart, gradually killing it."
The inhabitants of the islands know what the snails are up to and wait in their boats for the dead whales to surface so they can be dragged back to the islands as food sources.
"Those creatures have black teeth and skin and a white shell and the flesh is good to eat. They are called Laghan."
Mark your calendars for several weeks of delicious lectures about food & drink throughout the history of New Castle. FREE and open to all!
Save the date for a special event onboard the Nao Trinidad. The evening of Friday, September 20. Details to follow!
I'm learning a lot about the original voyage of the Nao Trinidad from Antonio Pigafetta's diary as a crewmember. The hardships they suffered are unimaginable.
"Wednesday, November 28, 1520...we were three months and twenty days with getting any kind of fresh food. ...powder of biscuits swarming with worms. We drank yellow water that had been putrid for many days...ate ox hides that covered the top of the mainyard and which had become exceedingly hard because of the sun, rain and wind....left them in the sea for days and then placed them on top of embers; and so ate them along with sawdust from rotted boards."
I promise when you visit the Nao Trinidad in Historic New Castle Tall Ships at the Wharf, it will be nothing but fun and no suffering! September 19-22! Tickets at: https://tickets.naotrinidad.org/
As we count down the weeks to the arrival of the Nao Trinidad, this first hand account of Magellans voyage is a fascinating read. The most well known is the account by Antonio Pigafetta who sailed on one of the five ships in 1519 as they left Sevilla.
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