After Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his ships -- the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria -- remain lost. Bettmann Archive The 15th century explorer landed ...

SAN ANTONIO — Corpus Christi's long-outlived replica ships of Christopher Columbus' voyage are scheduled to be demolished due expensive repair costs and diminished interest. The city plans to ...

They are also the showpieces of The Columbus Foundation — replicas of two of the three ships that carried Christopher Columbus and his crew across the Atlantic more than 500 years ago.

SAN ANTONIO – After years of deterioration, crews began demolishing the famous Christopher Columbus replica ships, the Pinta and Santa Maria, on Monday. Holly Winston from the Corpus Christi ...

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 ...

"Ships lost in cold, dark, deep water have a much better chance of staying intact and maintaining their 'time capsule' value." The landscape has radically changed since Columbus's time. Centuries ...

Christopher Columbus famously set sail in 1492 with a fleet of three ships: the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Although he sought a western passage to India, Columbus instead made landfall ...