What Happened To Nina, Pinta, And Santa Maria That Sailed In 1892?
This weekend, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria will reach St. Augustine, where the replicas of the ships Columbus sailed from Spain to the New World will be on display. The caravels are touring ports in the Eastern United States on their way to New York, where the the three vessels will lead hundreds of other ships through New York harbor in a giant July 4 celebration. The replicas have been sailing through some rough financial waters, but builders and backers of the three ships can only hope they will fare better than a similar project a century ago. In 1891, William Curtis, an official with the U.S. State Department in Spain, came up with the idea to build replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.
