As we all learned by rote in school, they were the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Yet uncertainty remains among historians about the 'official' or 'original' names of the ships, as opposed to the nicknames given to them by their crews.
Les trois bateaux de l'explorateur génois Christophe Colomb : la Nina, la Santa Maria et la Pinta. The ships used in Columbus’ first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492-93 were called the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
We're now more aware that much of that simple historical narrative is inaccurate. At no time during any of his four voyages across the Atlantic did Christopher Columbus make landfall at, or set foot on, the North American continent. During his first expedition , Columbus' ships touched on various islands that we now know as the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, i.e., the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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