Some ships, such as Titanic, are famous because they sank, but here are some famous ships that are celebrated for a variety of other reasons. Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria are the three ships on Christopher Columbus’s voyage of 1492 to America. The Mayflower ship took the settlers known as the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouths to America in 1620. Endeavour was the Captain James Cook’s ship on his exploration of Australia and New Zealand in 1768 – 71. Marie Celeste the US ship found abandoned in the Atlantic in 1872. The fate of its crew remains a mystery. Kon Tiki – a balsawood raft on which Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl sailed from South America across the Pacific to Polynesia in 1947. He made the voyage to prove his theory that Polynesian people came from South America.
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