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| Christopher Columbus’s three ships would take him and his crew of 90 men to the New World in about 5½ weeks. No one knows exactly what these ships looked like, but most scholars agree the Santa María (at center) was 23 to 27 m (75 to 90 ft) long. The Niña and the Pinta were 21 to 24 m (70 to 80 ft) long. These relatively small dimensions were characteristic of the vessels commonly used by Portugal and Spain in this time period. | ||||||
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