By locating the banks on Google maps and following details from the Ship Log, anyone can today clearly see Columbus’s deception.” How could a ship that Columbus says sank six miles offshore, lying on its side and taking on water, as he cleverly described it in the logbook, succeed in reaching a sandy beach six miles away in order to be shot by a cannon? This feat would require a large crane and diesel powered tugboats available only some 400 years later. However, Columbus shot it with a cannonball. Columbus wrote, 'porque ella quedó sana como cuando partió' (because she was as sound as when she had left (Spain)). On January 2, the ship was safe and sound on today’s Caracol Beach. “In his logbook, Columbus recorded the ship lost on coral banks, located one and a half leagues (6 miles) offshore from the beach where the Santa Maria was shot on January 2. The discovery became a hot topic for the media, but some researchers quickly retorted that it's impossible to find this ship in such a location. In 2014, a team of researchers believed that they discovered the wreck of Santa Maria off the coast of Haiti. ‘Christopher Columbus on Santa Maria in 1492’ (1855) by Emanuel Leutze. The ship was not chosen by coincidence, it is related to the true story of Columbus, whose real name may have been Pedro Madruga. It was a medium sized carrack with a deck that measured about 17.7 m (58 ft.) long. Santa Maria was built in Spanish Galicia, and it's first name was Gallega (Galician). End of the Enigmatic Christopher Columbus: A Man at Last Emerges to Eradicate the Myth.Two New Theories on the Hotly Debated Origins of Christopher Columbus.It was the place where he spent hours with his maps and diary and sought the right path for his ships. The main ship of the fleet was Santa Maria, called in Spanish ‘La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción.’ For many months it was Christopher Columbus’ home. The ships’ measurements are only known from research and documents that were prepared much later than 1492. All of the ships could travel with an average speed of a little less than 4 knots a day. The crews, especially the captains, were experienced on the sea. This expedition changed the world forever. However, around 88 men (or a few more) accompanied the explorer on these three ships and sailed them from Palos de la Fontera on August 3, 1492. They were not the strongest, the most comfortable, or the most modern ships. Their names are still famous, but the ships themselves seem to have disappeared from the pages of history.Ĭolumbus took three ships on his long and dangerous travels. The story of Christopher Columbus would not have been complete without three ships: Santa Maria, La Pinta, and La Niña.
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