Articles for tag: Christopher Columbus, discovery of America, history of exploration, Maritime History

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The Fate of Columbus’s Famous 3 Ships

Suhail Ahmed

  For more than five centuries, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria have sailed through our imaginations as much as they once cut across the Atlantic. Their voyages reshaped the world, but their own endings were messy, murky, and oddly unfinished. The Santa Maria famously ended on a reef; the Niña and Pinta ...