The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of La Pinta was Cristóbal Quintero. The New World was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana aboard La Pinta on 12 October 1492. But he adds that a full excavation must be carried out to be sure. La Pinta (Spanish for The Painted One, The Look, or The Spotted One) was the fastest of the three Spanish ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. Professor Charles Beeker, who directs the Indiana University's Office of Underwater Science and who has visited the wreck with Clifford, tells Keys that there's "some very compelling evidence" that the wreck is the Santa Maria. When they returned recently, "all the key visible diagnostic objects including the cannon had been looted by illicit raiders," The Independent's archaeology correspondent, David Keys, reports. Now they're working to prove its identity as the ship that sailed from Spain along with two smaller ships, the Pinta and the Niña.īut verifying the wreck's identity will be harder now than it would have been in 2003, when Clifford took photos of the site that included a cannon like what the Santa Maria would have carried. It turned out that Clifford's team had already located a wreck in that spot, in 2003. It is believed that Columbus ordered some of the ship's timbers stripped from the wreck in order to build a fort on land near the shore.Ī hand-drawn map by Christopher Columbus shows the northern coast of Española (Hispaniola), where his flagship, the Santa Maria, sank in 1492. The Santa Maria sank after hitting reefs off the Haitian coast around Christmas of 1492, months after arriving from Spain. That discovery led to a project with National Geographic. "The Haitian government has been extremely helpful - and we now need to continue working with them to carry out a detailed archaeological excavation of the wreck."Ĭlifford is a well-known wreck hunter, having found the pirate ship and former slave vessel the Whydah, which sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717. "All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus' famous flagship, the Santa Maria," Clifford tells Britain's The Independent. Undersea explorer Barry Clifford says he thinks he has found the ship in waters off of Haiti's coast. But now there are reports that the Santa Maria, the largest ship among the trio that made Christopher Columbus' first expedition to North America, may be found. It's been missing for more than 500 years. The location of the Santa Maria has been a mystery an explorer says he might have found it. The bow of the shipwreck, Pinta, located about 8 miles off Asbury Park, NJ, is a 500 ton Dutch freighter that sunk after a collision with the SS City of. A photograph of a replica of one of Columbus’ three ships, the three-masted caravel, Pinta.A 2011 photo shows a replica of Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, off the Portuguese island of Madeira. It’s unknown if the Niña and the Pinta, which were smaller caravels, ever returned to the New World after their voyage home, or if they sailed elsewhere. Columbus ordered it stripped, using its timbers to construct a village he named La Navidad. The largest of Columbus’s fleet, the 150-ton vessel grounded in present-day Haiti on Christmas Day, 1492. Only the fate of the Santa Maria is known. 12, 1492, ending the pre-Columbian era in the New World. The 15th century explorer landed in the present-day Bahamas on Oct. “Ships lost in cold, dark, deep water have a much better chance of staying intact and maintaining their ‘time capsule’ value,” he said. Bettmann ArchiveĪnd 500 years of hurricanes would be no friend to a beached hulk, either archaeologist Donald Keith told the magazine. A chromolithograph by Louis Prang and Company. If Columbus’ ships sunk in a region like the Caribbean, they would have easily been consumed by a species of wood-eating mollusk, known as “termites of the sea,” the magazine reported. No one knows whether the vessels, two of which eventually returned to Europe, ended up, if they even survived or were eventually wrecked. 12, 1492, ending the pre-Columbian era in the New World.ĭespite being the find of a lifetime for curious archaeologists and shipwreck chasers - the three ocean-going sailing ships have never been found, according to National Geographic. More than half a millennium after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his three ships - the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria - remain lost to history. We must rescue America’s heroes from those who tear them down Vandals spray-paint ‘Murderer’ on Central Park Columbus statue Photos show pair who scrawled ‘Murderer’ on Christopher Columbus statue: NYPD Vikings were in the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus: study
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