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She was lying in wait at Santo Domingo in 1500. In 1498, she returned to Hispaniola as advance guard of Columbus's Third Voyage. He stole a boat, rowed back to NiГ±a, and made sail, returning to CГЎdiz. The Captain, Alonso Medel, escaped with a few men. She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia. NiГ±a was then chartered for an unauthorized voyage to Rome. She was the only ship to survive the 1495 hurricane, returning quickly to Spain in 1496. In September 1493, NiГ±a joined a grand fleet of 17 ships for the second voyage to Hispaniola, becoming the flagship for an exploration of Cuba. On the first voyage to America, the crew of NiГ±a slept on the deck but adopted the use of hammocks after seeing Native Americans utilizing them. NiГ±a reached Lisbon, Portugal, on 4 March 1493, and arrived in Palos de la Frontera on 15 March 1493.

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On 14 February 1493, in the east of the Azores, a storm threatened to capsize NiГ±a, and at Columbus's instigation, he and the crew took a series of vows to perform certain acts including religious pilgrimages upon their return to Spain. Landfall was made in the Bahamas at dawn on 12 October 1492. They left Palos de la Frontera on 3 August 1492, stopping at the Canary Islands on 12 August 1492, and continued westward. On Columbus's first expedition, NiГ±a carried 26 men, captained by Vicente YГЎГ±ez PinzГіn. It was greatly surpassed in size by ships like Peter von Danzig of the Hanseatic League, built in 1462, 51В m (167В ft) in length, and the English carrack Grace Dieu, built during the period 1420вЂ“1439, weighing between 1,400 and 2,750 tons, and 66.4В m (218В ft) long, in both weight and length. NiГ±a, like Pinta and Santa MarГa, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean. Often said to have had three masts, there is some evidence she may have had four masts. There is no authentic documentation on the specifics of NiГ±a 's design, although Michele de Cuneo, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, mentioned that NiГ±a was ' about 60 toneladas' (60 tons), which may indicate a medium-sized caravel of around 50 feet (15В m) in length on deck. She was originally lateen sail rigged caravela latina, but she was re-rigged as caravela redonda at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, with square sails for better ocean performance. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the caravel-type Pinta and the carrack-type Santa MarГa.

However, she was commonly referred to by her nickname, La NiГ±a, which was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan NiГ±o of Moguer. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saint's name, Santa Clara. La NiГ±a ( Spanish for The Girl) was one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492. Name is Spanish for 'little girl' вЂ“ captained by Balboa A depiction of NiГ±a as a caravel on the left

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