Santa Maria 1:65 Scale – Amati

$145.00

Scale: 1:65 Length: 54cm

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Santa Maria 1:65 Scale (AM1409)

On October 12th 1492 Cristopher Columbus, in the service of Spain, set the Spanish flag on an island of an unknown world to Europe.
This extraordinary adventure was due to the strong perseverance of a foreign man haunted by the conviction that the Atlantic Ocean was but a sea, narrow enough to be sailed in a few days.

La Santa María (The Saint Mary), alternatively La Gallega, was the largest of the three Spanish ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, the others being the Niña and the Pinta. Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa, a man from Santoña, Cantabria, operating in south Spanish waters. Requisitioned by order of Queen Isabella and by contract with Christopher Columbus, whom de la Cosa knew previously, the Santa María became Columbus’s flagship on the voyage as long as it was afloat. Having gone aground on Christmas Day, 1492, on the shores of Haiti, through inexperience of the helmsman, it was partially dismantled to obtain timbers for Fort Navidad, “Christmas Fort,” placed in a native Taíno village. The fort was the first Spanish settlement in the New World, which Columbus had claimed for Spain. He thus regarded the wreck as providential. The hull remained where it was, the subject of much modern wreck-hunting without successful conclusion.

Amati’s Santa Maria 1:65 Scale Kit includes all wooden and metal accessories and fittings; flags and sails; laser cut keel and frames; detailed instructions and construction plans, fiftings, steel photoetched details and brass parts.

Scale 1:65

Length 21.3″

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