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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were much larger ships during the time of Columbus. But this type of ship was popular for more than 150 years for coastal trading.” A bass boat pulled even with the Niña.

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas 516 years ago this month. For five weeks in 1492, the mainmast of his Santa María was the tallest point on the Atlantic Ocean. Weren’t the wooden ...

Christopher Columbus’ three ships — the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María — will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated in the eastern Caribbean ...

For two decades, replicas of Christopher Columbus’ 1492 fleet of ships has carried the burden of dramatizing the Hispanic role in Corpus Christi. Skip to content. The Texas Observer.