Rodrigo de triana 1492 columbus

          Born as Juan Rodríguez Bermejo, Triana was the son of hidalgo and potter Vicente Bermejo and Sereni Betancour.!

          Christopher Columbus - 1st Voyage

          On the evening of August 3rd 1492, Columbus left Palos with three ships, the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta.

          The vexing question remains: Who was the first to discover the New World?

        1. On 12 October , after a voyage of 36 days, the sailor Rodrigo de Triana called out the much-awaited “Land ahoy!” from the top of La Pinta.
        2. Born as Juan Rodríguez Bermejo, Triana was the son of hidalgo and potter Vicente Bermejo and Sereni Betancour.
        3. On October 11, , Rodrigo de Triana, one of the men who sailed with Christopher Columbus on his voyage to India, spotted land from the ship La Niña.
        4. Rodrigo de Triana (born in Lepe, Huelva, Spain) was a Spanish sailor, believed to be the first European from the Age of Exploration to have seen the.

          5. His crew mostly came from surrounding towns such as Lepe and Moguer. He first sailed to the Canary Islands, owned by Castile, where he reprovisioned and made repairs. He was delayed there for four weeks by calm winds. Columbus left the island of Gomera on September 6, 1492, but light winds again left him within sight of the western island of Hierro until September 8.

          In the early morning of October 12, , a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana saw the moon shining on white sands and cried out.

          He then started what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. His method of navigation was mainly by Dead Reckoning, that is plotting course and distance travelled to determine his position.

          After 29 days out of sight of land, on 7 October 1492 as recorded in the ship's log the crew spotted shore birds flying west and changed direction to make their landfall.

          A later comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that the birds were Eskim