Item  #  Santa Maria-20

Santa Maria With Embroidery 20"

• Overall dimensions 20" long x 5" Wide x 21 " High (1:53 scale). 2 Lbs.
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, black walnut, birch and rosewood.
• Embroidery design on sails
• The model rests perfectly on a large wood base.
• Masterfully stitched canvas sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
• Deck details as per the actual Santa Maria.
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, pictures and copies of plans.

The Santa Maria was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa.

The Santa was a small carrack, or "Nao" around 70 feet, and was used as the flagship for the expedition. She carried 40 men. In 1492, in the middle of the expedition, the ship ran aground and was abandoned.

The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the caravel-type ships Santa Clara, remembered as the Niña ("The Girl" – a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Niño) and Pinta ("The Painted" – this might be a reference to excessive makeup or perhaps prostitution). All these ships were second-hand (if not third or more) vessels and were never meant for exploration.