1/19/2024 0 Comments Picture of columbus pinta ship![]() The ship weighed approximately 60 tons with an estimated deck length of 17 meters (56 ft) and a width of 5.36 meters (17.6 ft). The Pinta was square rigged and smaller than the Santa Maria. It was later rebuilt for use by Christopher Columbus. The origin of the ship is disputed but is believed to have been built in Spain in the year 1441. Thus, the Pinta, like the Nina, was not the ship's actual name. By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. The owner of the ship allowed Martin Alonso Pinzon to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on the ship. The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of the Pinta was Cristobal Quintero. The New World was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on October 12, 1492. La Pinta (Spanish for The Pint (liquid measure), The Look, or The Spotted One ) was the fastest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. The Nina logged at least 25,000 nautical miles (46,000 km) under Columbus' command. In 1501, she made a trading voyage to the Pearl Coast on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, and no further log of her is found in historic archives. ![]() She was lying in wait at Santo Domingo in 1500. In 1498, she returned to Hispaniola as advance guard of Columbus' Third Voyage. He stole a boat, rowed back to the Nina, and made sail, returning to Cadiz. The Captain, Alonso Medel, escaped with a few men. She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia. The Nina was then chartered for an unauthorized voyage to Rome. She was the only ship to survive the 1495 hurricane, returning quickly to Spain in 1496. In September 1493, the Nina joined a grand fleet of 17 ships for the second voyage to Hispaniola, becoming the flagship for an exploration of Cuba. On the first voyage to America, the crew of the Nina slept on the deck but adopted the use of hammocks after seeing Native Americans utilizing them. The Nina reached Lisbon, Portugal, on March 4, 1493, and arrived in Palos de la Frontera on March 15, 1493. On February 14, 1493, in the east of the Azores, a storm threatened to capsize the Nina, and at Columbus' instigation, he and the crew took a series of vows to perform certain acts including religious pilgrimages upon their return to Spain. Landfall was made in the Bahamas at dawn on October 12, 1492. They left Palos de la Frontera on August 3, 1492, stopping at the Canary Islands on August 12, 1492, and continued westward. On Columbus' first expedition, the Nina carried 24 men, captained by Vicente Yazez Pinzin. It was greatly surpassed in size by ships like the Peter von Danzig of the Hanseatic League, built in 1462, 51 m (167 ft) in length, and the English carrack Grace Dieu, built during the period 1420 1439, 66.4 m (218 ft) in length and weighing between 1,400 tons and 2,750 tons. The Nina, like the Pinta and Santa Maria, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean. ![]() Often said to have had three masts, there is some evidence she may have had four masts. There is no authentic documentation on the specifics of the Nina's design, although Michele de Cuneo, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, mentioned that the Nina was "about 60 toneladas" (60 tons), which may indicate a medium sized Caravel of around 50 feet (15 m) in length on deck. ![]() She was originally lateen sail rigged caravela latina, but she was re-rigged as caravela redonda at Azores with square sails for better ocean performance. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the caravel-type Pinta and the carrack-type Santa Maria. However, she was commonly referred to by her nickname, La Nina, which was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Nino of Moguer. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saint's name, Santa Clara. La Nina (Spanish for The Girl) was one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492. Pinta is available for private parties and charters. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel and offers larger deck space for walk-aboard tours and has a 40 ft air conditioned main cabin down below with seating. Pinta was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. We are a floating museum, and we visit ports all over the Western Hemisphere. ![]() That ship was last heard of in 1501, but the new Nina has a different mission. Columbus sailed the tiny ship over 25,000 miles. The Nina and Pinta Historically Accurate Columbus Replica Ship The Nina is a replica of the ship on which Columbus sailed across the Atlantic on his three voyages of discovery to the new world beginning in 1492. ![]()
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