The Age of Exploration: Chapter 4, Exercise 1 — Possible Solution ====================================================================== FLEET: Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, Santiago. DATES: departed 20 September 1519; returned 6 September 1522. LEADERS: Ferdinand Magellan, until his death in April 1521; then Juan Sebastian Elcano, who guided the remaining ship home. WHY THE STATEMENT IS PROBLEMATIC Magellan died before the voyage was complete, and the ship that finished it was under Elcano. The source credits the expedition, not Magellan personally, with the circumnavigation.