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The ship was built using power tools, with a hull length of 29.6 m (97 ft), keel length 16.1 m (53 ft), beam 7.9 m (26 ft), depth 3.2 m (10 ft) and load 223.8 metric tons of displacement. The foremast is 9.7 m (32 ft) high, the mainmast is 15.9 m (52 ft) and mizzen mast is 10.4 m (34 ft). The replica was declared by Jose Maria Martinez-Hidalgo ...
About 117 feet (36 metres) long, the “Santa María” had a deck, three masts, and forecastle and sterncastle and was armed with bombards that fired granite balls. She performed well in the voyage but ran aground off Haiti on Dec. 25, 1492, and was lost. Her sister ships, the “Niña” and “Pinta,” less than half her size, returned ...
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500 years later, Christopher Columbus’ flagship Santa Maria likely found off coast of Haiti ... Columbus abandoned ship, setting up a fort on a nearby island before eventually returning to Spain.
Santa Maria. , 1492. Santa María was Columbus’s flagship on his first and most remembered voyage, although he did not like the ship because it was large and slow. Santa María ran aground on a sandbar near what is now Cap Haïtien, Haïti, on Christmas Eve of 1492. In recent decades, a number of expeditions have searched for the remains.
Oct 5, 2017 · According to Columbus's logbook, the Santa Maria foundered on a reef off Cap Haïtien, Haiti, on Christmas Eve, 1492. Its hull was dismantled and used to construct the fortified village of La ...
Oct 9, 2019 · The Santa Maria, Columbus’s flagship, was a larger, heavier cargo ship. For 35 days, Columbus and his crew of 86 Spanish sailors sailed westward searching for a passage to China and India.
The three-masted vessel Santa Maria was the largest of Columbus’s expeditionary vessels and his flagship. Measuring around 70 feet in length, it carried a crew of 40 men. The Santa Maria and Columbus’s other fleet members the Niña and the Pinta were older ships used for coastal trading rather than vessels designed for ocean crossings. Nine ...
