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Re: (Non-LEGO) Recommendation
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:13:45 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

>   Do you know where any .jpgs are located?  I'd love to see them
>   cobbling together some 15th-C. ships.  I do know there are a few
>   replicas of Columbus's ships already floating around out there
>   (quite literally!), so I wonder if these will vary from those
>   at all...
> 
>   ...The Santa Maria was by far the largest of the ships, and I've
>   only ever seen pictures of the Niña, but MAN that was tiny.

Sorry it took me so long to respond (I've been away from the net for about a
week).  Here are a few links:

I was suprised to have little luck finding much on the web.  I've enclosed 3
articles from the Corpus Christi Caller Times - it seems that the city has had
trouble maintaing the ships, and is now looking for another home for them.

http://www.caller.com/attract/colum.htm
http://www.caller.com/1999/october/19/today/business/1785.html
http://www.caller.com/2000/april/25/today/editoria/5854.html


Here is a link regarding the Nina which isn't related to the Corpus Christi
exhibit:

http://www.thenina.com/index.html

james



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(...) Do you know where any .jpgs are located? I'd love to see them cobbling together some 15th-C. ships. I do know there are a few replicas of Columbus's ships already floating around out there (quite literally!), so I wonder if these will vary (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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