Philips puts her length at 15 meters, keel length 12 meters, beam 5 meters, and depth 2 meters. This would have made Niña the best of the three ships at sailing upwind. Unlike most ships of the period, Niña may have carried four masts, including a small counter-mizzen at the stern with another lateen sail. The Niña was another caravel of probably 50 or 60 tons, and started from Spain with lateen sails on all masts but she was refitted in the Canary Islands with square sails on the fore and main masts.
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This popular ship-design series is praised for its superb drawings and full descriptions of each. Smallest of the fleet was the Niña, captained by Vicente Añes Pinzón, brother of Martín. Santa Mara, being Columbus largest ship, was only about this size, and Nia and Pinta were smaller, at only 50 to 75 tons burden and perhaps 15 to 18 metres (. The Ships of Christopher Columbus: Santa Maria, Nia, Pinta. She probably had three masts, and most likely carried sails like those of Santa Maria, except for the topsail, and perhaps the spritsail. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saints name, Santa Clara. Philips puts the length of Pinta at 17 meters, keel length 13 meters, beam 5 meters, and depth 2 meters. La Niña (Spanish for The Girl) was one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the Americas in 1492.
We don't know much about Pinta, but it probably was about 70 tons. Pinta was a caravel, a smaller, lighter, and faster ship than the tubby Santa Maria. The Pinta was captained by Martín Alonso Pinzón, a leading mariner from the town of Moguer in Andalucia. In addition, the ship carried a small square sail on the bowsprit, and small topsail on the mainmast above the mainsail. The foresail and mainsail were square the sail on the mizzen, or rear, mast was a triangular sail known as a lateen. The Santa Maria had three masts (fore, main, and mizzen), each of which carried one large sail. The Nina sailed under Vicente Yanez Pinzon, and the Pinta sailed under his brother, Martin Alonso Pinzon. Both Nina and Pinta were about 50 feet long (15 meters). Of the three ships, only the Santa Maria was built with a deck, and it was a much slower, heavier ship, with a keel that was about 115-feet long (35 meters).
On the evening of August third 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships
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