The ship was part of the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition, a five-month voyage across the Atlantic. On board were a hodgepodge of academics, sailors, Harvard affiliates, and their wives.

Today marks the 525th anniversary of that voyage. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, the 41-year-old Christopher Columbus set out to sea in the Santa Maria accompanied by two smaller ships, the Nina ...

Samuel Eliot Morison was a professor at Harvard University, an admiral, historian of American naval adventures in World War II and a yachtsman who traced in his own vessel the voyage of Columbus ...

After retracing part of Columbus’ first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go ...

Scott Simon talks with Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus. Dugard delves into the rarely portrayed final journey of the famous explorer. Columbus's problems began, ironically ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue … and totally missed his mark. His journey may not have gone exactly as planned, but there were some interesting detours along the way.

Things got so bad that the third voyage ended with Columbus being forcibly ousted as governor of Hispaniola and shipped back to Spain in shackles.

Six years later, around the time of Columbus’ third voyage, Vicente Pinzon set off from Spain with four Caravels, or small sailing ships, including the Pinta, in what is known as one of the ...

The third voyage did not start until 1498, ... Columbus returned to Spain for the last time in 1504 and died two years later at the age of about 54 in Valladolid.

That was Columbus’ third boat in the famous voyage, and Sanger has to repeatedly explain why he didn’t build that one. “We have enough pain and suffering with two boats,” he said.

Martin and Vicente were captains, respectively, of the Pinta and Nina on Columbus’ first voyage in 1492. Six years later, around the time of Columbus’ third voyage, ...