Columbus' Ships
Barre Publishers | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | 160 pages | PDF | 21 MB

The basis of Columbus' Ships is a ten year research program by the noted Spanish maritime scholar, Jose Maria Martinez-Hidalgo, Director of the Museo Maritimo, Barcelona, Spain.
Opening with a brief biography of Christopher Columbus, Mr. Hidalgo goes quickly to  the task of presenting the material and evidence that he was able to uncover in this exhaustive study. His main objectives were to support his belief that (1) the Santa Maria was a nao and the Nina and Pinta were caravels; and (2) to combine ail the available information and data into new reconstructions of the three vessels, making them the last word in the continued attempt to reproduce replicas of these famous ships