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Model made of iroko wood. Belonging to the 64 gun British ship, Agamemnon, famous for being the favourite ship of Captain Horatio Nelson and having participated in numerous naval battles, including Trafalgar.
Maria HF 31 is a fishing Ewer whose home base was Finkenwerder in northern Germany. Maria HF31 operated in the North Sea for more than 70 years in the period from 1880 to 1950. During this period the vessel has undergone several rebuilding, including
The caravel La Pinta was launched in the shipyard of Palos de la Frontera (southwest of Spain). It took part together with the Santa Maria and La Niña in Colombus first journey to the New World. Of the three ships, La Pinta was the fastest.
The Santa María, together with the Pinta and Niña, is famous the world over for its part in Columbus´s discovery of the New World on 12th October 1492. On Christmas Eve of that year it broke up off the coast of Haiti and its
The Nina and Pinta, two of the ships in Columbus' fleet were known as caravels. A caravel had a shallower draft than a nao (Santa Maria), so it could move around in the water more easily. A caravel was 150-300 tons. It did not have much cargo