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They set Hudson and his teenage son John, along with seven sick, infirm, or loyal crewmen, adrift in a small open boat. He was never seen again. [40] [41] A mission was sent out in 1612, again in Discovery, commanded by Sir Thomas Button to find Henry Hudson and continue through the Northwest Passage. After failing to find Hudson, and exploring ...
Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
1610–1611: Henry Hudson reaches Hudson Bay in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage; 1612: James Hall and William Baffin explore southwest Greenland; 1612–1613: Button expedition, commanded by Thomas Button, in search of the Northwest Passage
Discovery was a small 20-ton, 38-foot (12 m) long "fly-boat" of the British East India Company, launched before 1602.It was one of the three ships (along with Susan Constant and Godspeed) on the 1606–1607 voyage to the New World for the English Virginia Company of London.
1607 – Henry Hudson coasts the east coast of Greenland, naming "Hold-with-Hope" (around 73°N). [54] 1609 – Hudson sails the Halve Maen up the Hudson River as far north as present-day Albany, New York. [55] 1610 – Étienne Brûlé ascends the Ottawa River and reaches Lake Nipissing and Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. [56]
After two failed attempts to reach East Asia by circumnavigating Siberia, Henry Hudson sailed west in 1609 under the Dutch East India Company. He, too, passed Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay, instead sailing up the Hudson River on September 11, 1609 in search of a fabled connection to the Pacific via what was actually the Great Lakes.
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The painting depicts the historical event that happened during English navigator Henry Hudson final voyage to search for the Northwest passage, when his crew mutinied in Hudson Bay, and he, his son and others were abandoned in a small boat, on 23 June 1611. It is unknown what happened to Hudson, his son and his men after this, but its presumed ...