Las Caravellas in 1992
The Santa Maria was a small nao, about 70Â feet long, used as the flagship for the expedition for Christopher Columbus in 1492. She carried 40 men.
Interest in reconstructing the Taylor Santa MarÃa started in the 1890s for the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. The 1892 reconstruction depicted the ship as a nao. A subsequent replica built in the 20th century depicts the Santa MarÃa as a caravel.
Commissioned as part of the 500th Anniversary Jubillee of the Voyage of Christopher Columbus, in 1992, we got to see “the Caravellas” when they came to Baltimore.
The first thing you think when you see the Santa Maria, The Niña, and the Pinta, is “they crossed the ocean in THAT?”
We enjoyed seeing them, after all we already saw the Santa Maria replica in Barcelona, Spain.
