Ships of the seven seas

The Santa Maria, the Niña and the Pinta
The most famous ships that ever sailed the seas
The Niña, shown in the foreground, was the smallest of the three, but in her Columbus returned to Spain after the Santa Maria was wrecked, and the captain of the Pinta seemed tempted to prove unfaithful.
SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS BY HAWTHORNE DANIEL AUTHOR OF “IN THE FAVOUR OF THE KING” WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS J. RIGNEY
GARDEN CITY
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1925
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition
TO NELLE R. DANIEL MY WIFE WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE THIS BOOK WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN BEGUN, BUT MOST CERTAINLY WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
In gathering material for a book of this kind one’s sources of information are likely to be so numerous and so diverse as to defy classification. Some of the information I have gotten first hand on ships in which I have served or voyaged. Much more of it has been picked up from countless scattered sources during twenty years or more in which ships have been my hobby. More still, however, has been consciously taken from books on ships and shipping that I have gathered together or referred to during the time I spent actually in preparing the manuscript.
Those books to which I have most often referred, and to the authors and publishers of which I am particularly indebted, are as follows: