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Historic Ships (6460 words) |
 | Unlike the other two ships on this voyage, the Niña and the Pinta which were caravels, the Santa Maria was a nao, or full rigged ship, which made it both larger and slower than her sister ships. |
| The other ships in the voyage were: the Trinidad, the flagship for the voyage and weighed 100 tons, the San Antonio, 120 tons, the Concepcion, 90 tons, and the caravel, Santiago, which was 75 tons. |
| Several ships of the Revenge class lay in wait for the flotilla at Flores in the northern Azores, but nearly half the men on board were stricken with a fever epidemic. |
| Henry Hudson's Fourth Voyage, 1610: The Northwest Passage (7133 words) |
| Discovery ended up sailing through the treacherous Arctic waters north of modern Quebec - the Furious Overfall - known today as Hudson's Strait although he did not discover it - and into a large body of water now known as Hudson Bay. |
| The ship was caught in ice, the crew and captain despaired of being stuck (Hudson wrote he was "in despair" he would perish in the ice). |
| In a frenzy, the mutineers ransacked the ship and the Captain's cabin. |
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