Spanish Santa Maria Wooden Sailing Ship Boat Nautical Decor

This small tabletop decorative Spanish ship decor model is exquisitely crafted from high quality wood and materials. Well-suited for nautical bathroom decor, museums, seaside retail stores, aquariums, and more!

This wooden ship model is fully assembled, painted with historical wood coloration and flying Spanish flags.

The three-masted vessel Santa Maria was the largest of Columbus’s expeditionary vessels and his flagship. Measuring around 70 feet in length, it carried a crew of 40 men. The Santa Maria and Columbus’s other fleet members the Niña and the Pinta were older ships used for coastal trading rather than vessels designed for ocean crossings. Nine weeks after the little fleet left Spain, land was sighted in the Caribbean on 12 October 1492, but exactly which island Columbus’s crew first spotted remains disputed.

The fleet went on to explore the north coasts of the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola (now Haiti). On Christmas Day 1492, the Santa Maria