Santa-Maria.jpg|
Santa Maria de Colombo, built in 1997–1998 on
Madeira Pirate ship in the West Edmonton Mall.jpg|Replica in
West Edmonton Mall, Canada Santa Maria 43215.JPG|Replica in
Columbus, Ohio, US SantaMariaPalos1.jpg|Replica in
Wharf of the Caravels,
Palos de la Frontera, Spain Santamariapuszczykowo.jpg|Full-size replica in the
Arkady Fiedler Museum in
Puszczykowo, Poland Little is definitively known about the actual dimensions of
Santa María, since no documentation or illustration has survived from that era. Since the 19th century, various notable replicas have been publicly commissioned or privately constructed.
Quadricentennial (1892) Interest in reconstructing
Santa María started in Spain at around 1890 for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. An 1892 reconstruction by the Spanish government depicted the ship as a
nau (
Carrack). The replica vessel including her two sister ships, the Nina and the Pinta, sailed to North America where they were present at the
Chicago World's Fair of 1893. On their way through the
Great Lakes they visited several ports including
Toronto,
Ontario.
West Edmonton Mall (1986) A replica was built during
Expo 1986 and anchored in "Deep Sea Adventure Lake" at
West Edmonton Mall in
Alberta, Canada. Built at False Creek in
Vancouver,
British Columbia, the ship was hand-carved and hand-painted, and then transported by flatbed trucks across the Rocky Mountains to
Edmonton, Alberta.
Marigalante (1991) The
Marigalante was built in 1991 for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. It sailed the world for a time before providing sail cruises from
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for many years. It sank on 10 October 2025 in the
Bay of Banderas, with no loss of life, when a bilge pump malfunctioned on a routine voyage.
Quincentennial (1991) A replica, depicted as a
carrack, was commissioned by the city of
Columbus, Ohio, US. It was built by the Scarano Brothers Boat Building Company in
Albany, New York, who later cut the ship in half and transported it by truck to the
Scioto River. The replica cost about $1.2 million. The ship was constructed out of white cedar as opposed to the oak used on the original to give the ship a long life in the Scioto River and to reduce cost. The main mast was carved out of a single
douglas fir tree and was equipped with a top sail (since removed). The ship was built using power tools, with a hull length of , keel length ,
beam , depth and load . The
foremast is high, the
mainmast is and
mizzen mast is . The replica was declared by Jose Maria Martinez-Hidalgo, a Spanish marine historian, to be the most authentic replica of the
Santa María in the world during the ship's coronation on 12 October 1991.
Dana Rinehart, the
50th mayor of Columbus, christened the ship as part of the 500th anniversary of its voyage. The ship was removed from its moorings in 2014, cut into 10 pieces, and stored in a lot south of the city, pending funding to do repairs and restorations. As of early 2016, the plans for restoration have stalled.
Palos (1992) A full sized replica of
Santa Maria, together with replicas of the
Pinta and
Nina, was built in Spain for the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus'
first voyage to the Americas. They were constructed in the fishing
port of Isla Cristina, in western Huelva province, and are exhibited at the
Wharf of the Caravels in
Palos de la Frontera,
Huelva.
Madeira (1998) A functional replica was built on the
Portuguese island of
Madeira, between July 1997 and July 1998, by craftsmen from the fishing village of
Câmara de Lobos. The ship is long and wide. In 1998
Santa María represented the
Madeira Wine Expo 98 in
Lisbon, where she was visited by over 97,000 people in 25 days. Since then thousands more have sailed and continue to sail aboard that
Santa María replica which is located in
Funchal.
Puszczykowo (2008) A stationary full-size replica can be seen in the
Arkady Fiedler Museum in
Puszczykowo, Poland (near
Poznań). The ship was built there in 2004–2008, within the Garden of Cultures and Tolerance, by Fiedler's sons with a
ship modeller, Rajmund Korcz, and two assistants. ==See also==