Five ships left Plymouth in 1577 and one came back. Out: roughly 164 men. Home, three years later: about 56. The Pelican, renamed Golden Hind somewhere off South America, sailed in on her own and everybody counted the treasure rather than the crew.
The name I'd put near the top of the manifest is Nuno da Silva. Portuguese pilot, taken with his ship off the Cape Verde islands in 1578, kept aboard for something like fifteen months because he knew the Brazil coast and had the charts to prove it. They put him ashore on the Mexican coast in 1579 and he was questioned for years about what he'd seen. He gets a line in most accounts, if that.
Drake got his knighthood aboard her at Deptford in 1581, except Elizabeth handed the sword to the French ambassador and let him do the dubbing. Deniability, basically. (If the Spanish complained, it wasn't technically her arm.)
They victualled on penguins going through the Strait — Magellanic penguins, thousands killed and salted on one island in 1578 for ship's stores. Slow breeders, one or two eggs a year. The colonies there are still counted every season, and the birds still object loudly to anyone walking past.
Inés, the thing that stops me is her size — something like a hundred tons, about 21 metres on deck. Smaller than most harbour tugs working Plymouth today, and she went round the world with da Silva's charts aboard.