![]() ![]() Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Image ID. How to Citeįor the purposes of a bibliography entry or footnote, follow this model: Wisconsin Historical Society Citation Visual materials in the Archives do not circulate and must be viewed in the Society's Archives Research Room. ![]() Use the links below to plan your visit to the Society's Archives. Print out this index page and present it to the librarian. To view this image, visit the Archives Research Room on the 4th floor at the Society Headquarters building in Madison, WI. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin Please Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright. Images altered beyond standard cropping and resizing require further negotiation with a staff member. The image should not be significantly altered through conventional or electronic means. It may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media. Use of the image requires written permission from the staff of the Collections Division. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS This image is issued by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Image-purchasing questions? Please Contact Us. And that, Lyon says, is the last glimpse of the beloved “little girl.For commercial or non-profit use, please contact Image Sales.īy clicking "BUY" you agree to our Terms of Use. “Unfortunately,” he writes, “it will not solve the mystery of Nina’s final end.” The documents record the Nina’s apparent sale to a Diego Ortiz in October, 1499. Lyon is in the process of translating all 400 pages of the “Libro de Armadas,” under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the University of Florida. The countermizzen, which indicates two masts after of the main mast, was Lyon’s clue to the existence of the Nina’s four masts. According to the documents, its sails included a worn mainsail, an old foresail, an old mizzen sail and a half-worn countermizzen sail. The Nina carried three anchors, a small boat with six oars and 11 water casks. The Nina was armed with 10 bombardas with their breechblocks, turning yokes, bolts, and wedges, as well as 80 lead balls, 54 short and 20 long lances and 100 pounds of gunpowder. Two of the four women aboard were Gypsies named Catalina and Maria, convicted murderers freed by the crown on condition that they emigrate. The Nina and the Santa Cruz carried more than 90 of them, including farmers and stockmen, crossbowmen, a priest, locksmith, miner and surgeon. Its total carrying capacity was 58 to 60 tons.įor this third voyage, Columbus had received permission to take as many as 330 persons to the Indies on royal salary. The ship appears, therefore, to have been 67 feet long, with a beam of 21 feet and a draft of just under 7 feet. Lyon calculated the Nina’s 1498 Indies lading at just over 52 tons. Also aboard for the colonists were olive oil, sardines, raisins and garlic.įrom a ship’s loaded cargo, it is possible to estimate the dimensions of its hold, and thus its hull. Caulkers worked 40 days on its deck and hull.įinally, the documents say, it was refitted and fully laden: 18 tons of wheat, 17 tons of wine in great pipe barrels, about 7 tons of sea biscuit, almost 2 tons of flour, more than 2,000 pounds of cheese and a ton of salt pork. The Nina received new sails, a new 200-pound anchor, and cartloads of planking. To pay his seamen, the documents disclose, Columbus used funds he was to have taken to Hispaniola, hoping to balance the books with gold to be found there. An angry Columbus recovered it.įinally preparing for his third voyage to the New World, Columbus decided to send the Nina and its companion ship Santa Cruz ahead to Hispaniola in early February, 1498, with much-needed supplies. The crew, through bribery, escaped and returned the ship safely to Spain. Next, apparently without Columbus’ approval, the Nina was sent to Rome on a commercial voyage in 1497 and was hijacked off the coast of Sardinia by a French pirate.
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