![]() Along with replicas of Santa María and Pinta she participated in the review. Replicas Niña and Pinta replicas at the 1893 Columbian Exposition The replica of the Columbus FoundationĪ replica of Niña was built by the Spanish government for the Columbian Naval Review of 1893. ![]() Niña logged at least 25,000 nautical miles (46,000 km) under Columbus' command. In 1501, she made a trading voyage to the Pearl Coast on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, and no further log of her is found in historic archives. She was lying in wait at Santo Domingo in 1500. In 1498, she returned to Hispaniola as advance guard of Columbus's Third Voyage. He stole a boat, rowed back to Niña, and made sail, returning to Cádiz. The Captain, Alonso Medel, escaped with a few men. She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia. Niña was then chartered for an unauthorized voyage to Rome. On Jthe vessel returned to Spain with Columbus on board, as flagship. The Santa Cruz, also known as La India, was the first ship built in America by the Spanish. The caravel Santa Cruz was then built following the model of La Niña to replace the sunken ships. In the summer of 1495 at the port of Isabela, in Hispaniola, a cyclone damaged the Niña, and sank all the other moored ships. On June 30, 1494, during the return of this trip, La Niña hit bottom and suffered damage. Already in the new lands, she left as captain of an exploration trip in which the southern coast of Cuba and Jamaica were discovered. On September 25, 1493, the caravel La Niña was part of the flotilla of Columbus' second voyage. On the first voyage to America, the crew of Niña slept on the deck but adopted the use of hammocks after seeing Native Americans utilizing them. Niña reached Lisbon, Portugal, on 4 March 1493, and arrived in Palos de la Frontera on 15 March 1493. On 14 February 1493, in the east of the Azores, a storm threatened to capsize Niña, and at Columbus's instigation, he and the crew took a series of vows to perform certain acts including religious pilgrimages upon their return to Spain. ![]() Landfall was made in the Bahamas at dawn on 12 October 1492. They left Palos de la Frontera on 3 August 1492, stopping at the Canary Islands on 12 August 1492, and continued westward. On Columbus's first expedition, Niña carried 26 men, captained by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. It was greatly surpassed in size by ships like Peter von Danzig of the Hanseatic League, built in 1462, 51 m (167 ft) in length, and the English carrack Grace Dieu, built during the period 1420–1439, weighing between 1,400 and 2,750 tons, and 66.4 m (218 ft) long, in both weight and length. Niña, like Pinta and Santa María, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean. Often said to have had three masts, there is some evidence she may have had four masts. There is no authentic documentation on the specifics of Niña 's design, although Michele de Cuneo, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, mentioned that Niña was " about 60 toneladas" (60 tons), which may indicate a medium-sized caravel of around 50 feet (15 m) in length on deck. She was originally lateen sail rigged caravela latina, but she was re-rigged as a caravela redonda at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, with square sails for better ocean performance. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the caravel-type Pinta and the carrack-type Santa María. However, she was commonly referred to by her nickname, La Niña ('The Little Girl'), which was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Niño of Moguer ('Niño, his surname, meaning 'Little Boy'). As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saint's name, Santa Clara. 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 West Indies in 1492. Nickame is Spanish meaning "little girl" – captained by Balboa A depiction of Niña as a caravel on the left
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