Columbus did not only use three vessels with now well-known names — the 108-dwt carrack Santa Maria (built 1460) and two caravels, the 60-dwt Pinta (built 1441) and 50-dwt Nina (built circa 1442) — but he made four roundtrip voyages from the New World to Europe, and used 30 ships in total up until 1502.
It is undisputed that “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
