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Originally Posted by Timbo's hopeless slice
http://mondediplo.com/2005/09/18zhenghe
"27,000 men aboard 317 ships. The most impressive vessels were the treasure ships, built of hardwood, 130 metres long and 50 metres wide; by the side of them, Columbus’s 28-metre long Santa Maria, in which he reached the Americas, would have looked like a dinghy, and he had only three ships and 270 men."
as for tennis, they had more finalists in the most recent grand slam than the USA managed 
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I'm not sure that Columbus' fleet was indicative of the height of European ship-building at the time. 
But anyway, interesting stuff.
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