After 11 months without any sight of Christopher Columbus, the Spanish monarchy are dissuaded for the time being against further circumnavigation experiments. 1516 September 3rd 'Juan Ponce de León' along with ‘Vasco da Gama’ and ‘Vasco Núñez de Balboa’ are given approval by the Spanish Monarchy for funding to search for the western passage to the Orient and maybe the fountain of youth while they are at it. Their ships are the Sil, Mino, Deva, Grosa, Anaga, and Candido Perez. Each is the biggest yet constructed, nearly a floating town in their own right(each held about 1000 people, all men though) (it was surmised that Columbus’ crew starved to death before they reached the other side of the world and that they had preferred to press on rather than return in defeat (most likely Columbus wa