The Santa Maria was also known at the time as La Gallega, meaning "The Galician." The Niña is now believed to be a nickname for a ship originally called the Santa Clara, and the Pinta was probably also a nickname, though the ship’s real name isn’t clear. The Washington Post, for example, observed that: Yet uncertainty remains among historians about the "official" or "original" names of the ships, as opposed to the nicknames given to them by their crews. No contemporaneous images of his famous 1492-93 expedition's three ships exist, but we at least know the names of those vessels, right?Īs we all learned by rote in school, they were the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
It turns out that even some inconsequential basic "facts" about Columbus' famed first voyage are problematic. The big question for Columbus, it turns out, was not the shape of the Earth but the size of the ocean he was planning to cross. Several books published in Europe between 12 discussed the Earth’s shape, including “The Sphere,” written in the early 1200s, which was required reading in European universities in the 1300s and beyond. Columbus in fact owned a copy of Ptolemy’s Geography, written at the height of the Roman Empire, 1,300 years before Chris Columbus set sail. That information was already a generally accepted fact among educated people of Columbus' time, and, in any case, Columbus didn't definitively establish it by circumnavigating the globe:Īs early as the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras - later followed by Aristotle and Euclid - wrote about Earth as a sphere, and historians say there is no doubt that the educated in Columbus’s day knew quite well that the Earth was round. And finally, Columbus certainly didn't " prove" the Earth was round, nor did he set out to do so. And even if Columbus had reached North America proper by ship at some point, it's unlikely he would have been the first person, or even the first European, to do so. During his first expedition (1492-93), Columbus' ships touched on various islands that we now know as the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, i.e., the Dominican Republic and Haiti. At no time during any of his four voyages across the Atlantic did Christopher Columbus make landfall at, or set foot on, the North American continent. We're now more aware that much of that simple historical narrative is inaccurate. Children 4 and younger enter for free.One of the primary historical "facts" many of us learned as schoolchildren was that "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," and in three ships named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, the intrepid Italian explorer -sponsored by Spanish monarchs - sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and "discovered America," in the process finally proving to the world that the Earth was round. For those interested in visiting the replica ship, tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors or military members and $6 for children. The ship will be open daily in both Newport and Rising Sun from 9 a.m. Those who want to flashback through time can explore the Pinta replica ship with self-guided tours. Sanger Ships also created a replica of the Nina, which is the most historically accurate Columbus replica ever built. The boat's replica was constructed by Sanger Ships, and it was first launched in Brazil in 2005. The ship was built by 8th generation Portugeuse Shipwrights using the same methods and tools that were used to build the original ship, which is a "caravel." Caravels were mainly used as trading vessels along the Mediterranean and African coasts before being used for Transatlantic voyages open up trading to the "New World." The Pinta was the fastest of the three ships and its inhabitants first spotted land on Oct. The Pinta was one of Columbus' three Spanish ships, alongside the Nina and Santa Maria, that first traveled to the "New World" AKA the Americas. After the ship departs from Northern Kentucky on June 14, it will dock in Southeast Indiana at the Rising Sun Marina from June 16 to June 18. History lovers and Tri-State residents can step back in time as a replica of one of Christopher Columbus' ships will be docking in Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana.Ī replica of the "Pinta" will be docked in Newport near the Hooters on Riverboat Row beginning June 2.
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