The district's logo currently depicts the Santa Maria, one of the ships used in Columbus' first voyage to America in 1492, according to Britannica.com—the other two being the Niña and the Pinta.

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 ...

The Santa Maria City Council and Santa Maria Joint Union High School District have agreed to hold future discussions regarding the use of one of Christopher Columbus' ships as their ...

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas 516 years ago this month. For five weeks in 1492, ... Absolutely. Tall ships did get struck by lightning quite often, ...

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 ships of Christopher Columbus's First Fleet—the flagship Santa Maria flanked by Niña and Pinta—are depicted in this undated woodcut. Only the fate of Santa Maria is known.

Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus' three famous ships The country's coat of arms hangs at the entrance of a government building in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ...