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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.
May 13, 2014 · On Christmas Day of 1492 Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, ran aground off the northern coast of Haiti.In his journal Columbus recorded the location of the ship's wreck, and over ...
May 13, 2014 · The Santa Maria left Spain in August 1492, along with La Pinta and La Nina, sailing westward It was the largest ship in the expedition, about 117ft (36m) long The ship ran aground on a reef near ...
May 13, 2014 · The Santa Maria was a carrack, a craft that was "the definitive beast of burden of the Age of Exploration," according to the site In-Arch. "Magellan, for example, had an all-carrack fleet with ...
May 13, 2014 · 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.
Christopher Columbus - Explorer, Voyages, New World: The ships for the first voyage—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María—were fitted out at Palos, on the Tinto River in Spain. Consortia put together by a royal treasury official and composed mainly of Genoese and Florentine bankers in Sevilla (Seville) provided at least 1,140,000 maravedis to outfit the expedition, and Columbus supplied more ...
La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción, or La Santa María, originally La Gallega, was the largest of the three small ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, with the backing of the Spanish monarchs. Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa.
