A replica of the Santa Maria ship is visiting Drogheda for several days as part of a historical outreach tour.<\/p>\n
One of the most famous ships in the world, the Santa Maria led by Christopher Columbus played the main role in the discovery of America.<\/p>\n
It first set sail on 3 August 1492 from Huelva in Spain, along with the caravels, the Ni\u00f1a and the Pinta.<\/p>\n
In October that year it arrived in America.<\/p>\n
The construction of the 200-tonne full-scale replica ship was completed in 2018 by the Nao Victoria Foundation.<\/p>\n
It carries five sails with a surface of 303sq\/m and the standing and running rigging on board consists of about 3km of rope.<\/p>\n
While it has modern elements like engine and machine rooms, GPS, radio and radar, it also has an exhibition area to show visitors what the famous vessel was like.<\/p>\n
Drogheda Port is one of 30 ports to welcome the Nao Santa Maria this year.<\/p>\n
It will be open to the public for tours to explore the interior and learn more about its history from 17-26 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A replica of the Santa Maria ship is visiting Drogheda for several days as part of a historical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-554057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}