Marcelo Rodrigues

Marcelo Rodrigues was born on 29 April 1607 in Silves, Faro District, Portugal.
In 1631, he joined the Portuguese Navy and fought in the Dutch–Portuguese War where he learned to sail. He quit the navy in 1635 due to scurvy. He joined the Audax Brotherhood in 1637 when he saw their ship ,Esposende.
In 1637, he became the captain of the ship and sailed spies from Sagres to Sri Lanka. 
In 1640, the Spanish Brotherhood took the vessel to the Philippines. Some assassins (Alberto Don Julio, Alfonso Banderas and Pelayo Almodovar) needed to train the Pagkawala Tribe in Silinog Island, Zamboanga del Norte. On 15 July 1640, the ship was attacked in her home port of Sagres by the Knights Templar. The battle was lost but the ship made it to the Philippines. 
Departure on 15 July was hard but most of the crew got on. In further detail, 41 out of the 45 crew members got on. 
The captain, Marcelo Rodrigues, was experienced and used to be a captain for a ship in the Portuguese Navy. The ship made a stop in Luanda, Luanda Province, Angola to gather supplies. There, they had to leave behind 3 men (Luis Bonifacio, Jouaquin Moura and Jose Bandeira) with scurvy who didn't die there but started the Angolan Audax Brotherhood. During the trip in Andamanan Sea, a fight broke out on sea and 4 people died. They had to stop and trade with the locals in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. She arrived on the island on 1 August with 34 out of the 41 crew members that arrived.
In 1641, he and a native woman from the tribe had a son, Roberto Rodrigues.
In 1642, while the ship was taking supplies from Manila, Metro Manila to the island, it was attacked by a Spanish ship off the coast of Anini-y, Antique. She won the battle. She didn't sink but was badly damaged and the Captain died. Fernando Teles became the new captain.
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