Esposende

The Esposende was a ship belonging to the Spanish Audax Brotherhood from 1637 to 1640 and to the Filipino Audax Brotherhood from 1640 to 1649. It is by far the most successful ship of the Audax Fleet. It was responsible for the founding of 3 Audax Brotherhood branches. Philippines, Angola and DRC.
== History ==
=== Building ===
It was built by Eduardo Costa in Albufeira, Algavre, Portugal. The construction started in 1632 and was intended to the Spanish Navy but instead was sold to the Audax Brotherhood in 1637. Because of this, Costa used slaves from Angola to build the ships. The Brotherhood then bought the slaves and freed every single one of them. The building finished in 1636 and was kept in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal until being sold.
=== 1637-1640 ===
During this 3 year time period, she brought spies to Sri Lanka due to the Sinhalese–Portuguese War.
=== 15 July 1640 ===
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.
=== Journey 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.
=== 1642 ===
In 1642, while the ship was taking supplies from Manila, Metro Manila to the island, it was attacked by a Spanish ship, El Guerrero(Hired by the Templars), 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.
=== 1649 ===
While transporting Spanish assassins from Spain to the Philippines for training to get ready for surviving in the wild, she was attacked by a Spanish Man o' War off the coast of Soyo, Zaire, Angola. Everyone on the ship died except for 18 year old Felipe Rajoy who then swam to the Kingdom of Kongo where he also founded the Congo Brotherhood of Audax.