Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
Emily Kammüller 8g3
The wind blew powerful on the 22nd June 1611. The area was bleakness, cold and iced. The 46 old Henry Hudson, all cold and frostbitten, had nothing but a boat, his eight loyal crew members and his son John. He was never heard of again.
That was the tragical death of the English explorer and navigator Henry Hudson, who is known for searching for a passage at the North Pole to China and Japan. He also discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay. There is only little known about his early life, but it is known that he was born in 1565 and came from a very wealthy family in London. He got well educated and studied cartography, navigation, ...
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order from the Muscovy company, which was founded by John Cabot and some English merchants. He had to search for a passage from the North Pole region to China and Japan. So he set sail one year later, in May of the year 1607, with an old ship named ‘Hopewell’ and a 20 member crew. But the expedition was hopeless. The journey was very tough and the weather was freezing, but they got to see a beauty of the nature. They were able to see some magnificent whales, which lived in the waters. But also then they got problems. The whale traders, which occupied the region, tried to drive away the Hopewell and their crew. They returned home again, but not because of their hunters, also because of the horrible weather conditions. They couldn’t stand it anymore and returned south. In September 1607 they arrived at Tilbury in England, where Hudson reported about the whale hunters as if it had been fleets of Whaling ships.
But Henry Hudson didn’t stop now. Already in 1608 he was ready to start ...
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any considerable loss of time, and if it is possible return immediately in order to make a faithful report and relation of his voyage to the Directors, and to deliver over his journals, log-books, and charts, together with an account of everything whatsoever which shall happen to him during the voyage without keeping anything back."
The Dutch Company now provided Hudson a ship. It was called the Half Moon and was, as well as the Hopewell, an old and small ship. But he couldn’t complain about it, otherwise they would have searched for another captain. Hudson couldn’t permit that, so he set sail in April 1609 with a 20 member crew, who were partly English and partly Dutch people. They ...
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