What do the names Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria mean?
According to ‘Christopher-Columbus-Five-things-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-explorer’ the original names of the three ships were La Santa Clara, La Pinta, and La Santa Gallega.Santa Clara was owned by a man named Juan Niño who was also captain of the caravel on the voyage. It’s probable that sailors nicknamed the ship La Niña as a pun on the owners name and Santa Clara is a girls name. La Niña means ‘the Girl’ or ‘the little girl’ in Spanish.NiñaLa Pinta became called La Pintada or ‘the Painted One’ in Spanish. In those days prostitutes were often recognized by the amount of makeup or ‘paint’ that they wore. Sailors were a very disrespectful bunch back then.PintaThe biggest of the ships was La Gallega owned by Juan de la Cosa who also sailed with Columbus. The name of the ship probably derived from Galicia, the town where de la Cosa came from. It’s uncertain whether it was the Catholic Church or Columbus himself but the ship was renamed La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción, or Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception (Santa Maria for short) in English because of a possible association of it’s original name with a prostitute of a similar name.Given that ‘the Little Girl’ and ‘the Painted One’ can be seen as irreverently referring to prostitutes, it’s entirely conceivable that ‘La Gallega’ might also have been named after a prostitute and that either the Church or Columbus might have censored it to retain some dignity to the expedition.
When the Pilgrims came over on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria did they have cats on board?
It just seems like it would have been the most practical pest control. But then those Pilgrims were weird about cats and though everything was the devil. So does anyone know exactly when the domestic cat stepped paw on the New World?
Would you have sailed on the nina, pinta or santa maria?
yes that sounds cool
Who sailed in the Nina, Pinta and Saint Maria?
I have yet to meet the man who can be aboard three boats at once. So the correct answer is no one of course. But there were 80 something men on board under the command of the Italian Cristoforo Colombo, known is Spanish as Cristobal Colon, or Christopher Columbus, as he is known by Anglos, on his first venture to the New World. He made four ventures, only the last landing on the mainland in the mouth of the Orinoco River, today in Venezuela. On his first three ventures, he explored the Caribbean. He returned to Castille (Barcelona) with his bounty of traded and stolen goods and a few captive slaves. And a whole bunch of stories, some true, and some, well, embellished. Nice guy.
Looking for a Far Side comic with Native Americans & the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria sailing into shore.?
I am looking for the Far Side comic that shows Native Amer. standing on the edge of an island looking at the 3 ships. One says to the other, 'if we don't educate their children, do you think they'll leave"
What does nina, pinta, and santa maria mean ( in english )? It's the ships that Christopher Columbus sailed
nina ---- little girl pinta --- the spotted one santa maria --- saint mary
Where are the real Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria ships now?
The Santa Maria sank along the coast of Haiti on Christmas Day, 1492. It was thought to have been found, but a recent report shows that the wreck is not the Santa Maria after all: Page on unesco.org.The location of the Pinta is unknown. There is no verified documentation about the ship's history post-Columbus. It was claimed to have been found on Molasses Reef in Turks & Caicos in the early 1980s, but that wreck has not been positively identified as being a specific vessel: Molasses Reef Wreck.The Nina is known to have been in Venezuela as late as 1501 but there is no record of her location or history after that. See: 'Ruined and Lost': Spanish Destruction of the Pearl Coast in the Early Sixteenth Century.
How large were the ships La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María?
Pretty small actually.At roughly 55 to 70 feet in length, the La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María wouldn’t even be considered “tall ships” today.“Ships built in Europe in the fifteenth century were designed to sail the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic Ocean coastlines. Columbus' smaller-sized ships were considered riskier on the open ocean than larger ships. This made it difficult to recruit crew members, and a small number were jailed prisoners given a lighter sentence if they would sail with Columbus.”—WikipediaImages courtesy;By Miguel Ángel "fotógrafo" - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, File:LaPinta.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Did Columbus sail on the Mayflower?
No. He sailed on the Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria.
What should be the minimum tonnage of the ship that can sail across oceans?
As for what “can” sail across oceans, the famous trio of ships “Nina”, “Pinta” and “Santa Maria” (I hope I got those right!) were rather small, and they managed it. For that matter, various sportsmen and sailors nowadays sail across in relatively small boats (both by sail, and motor-driven).And even small objects (like messages-in-a-bottle, for example) have “sailed” (or at least floated!!) across large vast oceans.So it’s really less a question of what “can” sail across oceans, than more a question of how comfortably, safely, or pleasurably one can sail across oceans. And for that, personally, I love big, “mega”-type cruise ships. The bigger a ship is, the more comfortably it should be able to deal with weather and sea conditions encountered, and the more luxurious creature comforts (food, activities, entertainment, and so forth) it can probably provide.The old “ss Norway” (a 70,000 ton cruise ship, converted from the “ss France” ocean liner… for many years at 1035 feet long the longest passenger ship ever built) used to have a mural in one of her elevator lobbies reminding passengers of what Atlantic crossings used to be like for the Pilgrims that came across in wooden sailing ships to help settle what became the United States. And as splendid as the ss Norway was, today’s biggest cruise ships are more than three times her size!