Short Essay On Henry Hudson English Explorer

Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.He explored parts of the Arctic ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait are named after him. He attended Harvard University were he studied cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship. He was hired by the Muscovy Company to find a waterway from Europe to Asia in 1607. He made two trips and failed to find a route to Asia. In 1609 he was hired by the Dutch India Company to find the Northwest Passage, on this trip he found the Hudson River.He was born in London, England.He was remembered so well because he mapped out unknown territory really well, and he didn't sail on the easiest

voyages.There are no actual pictures of Henry Hudson because no one painted, drew, or had a picture of him for use to use as a picture of him.

In June of 1611 is when he had his last voyage and his crew members and him were never heard from again. He came from a wealthy family, he had a grandfather also named Henry Hudson who was a founding member of the Merchant Adventures, which later became the Muscovy trading company. He was born sometime in the late 1500s the exact date and year are not known. He got married to a woman named Katherine and together they had three sons. John, Richard, and Oliver, John one of his sons was set out to go one time fourth voyage with his father.In one of his journals he described a fish like thing swimming alongside their ship. Henry Hudson’s first voyage was to find the Northwest Passage and with how smart he was people believed he could. The ship he sailed on was a small three masted ship called Hopewell. He started this voyage in May of 1607 and came back September of that year because the Great Barrier Reef was blocking his way. On this voyage he did end up finding Whale’s Bay, which started the coal mining industry. He was paid by the English Muscovy Company to find the Northwest passage, but wind and ice ended up making him turn around instead. Henry Hudson made it all the way to the Svalbard archipelago north of Norway before he was

stopped by ice. On his second voyage Henry Hudson took the same ship as as the first voyage called the Hopewell. The following year, Hudson made a second Muscovy-funded voyage between Svalbard and the islands of Novaya Zemlya, to the east of the Barents Sea, but again found his way blocked by ice fields. Though English companies were reluctant to back him after two failed voyages, Hudson was able to gain a commission from the Dutch East India Company to lead a third expedition in 1609.He left England on April 22 1608, he had his son as a part of the voyage, and John Strutton who was also on the first voyage. It was eight months since his last voyage. He was sent by the Muscovy Company to find a passage to the East Indies by the northeast. They strengthened the ship extra planks to help make it through icy waters. Henry Hudson’s lack of success in finding the Northeast past led to the Muscovy Company to stop their support and end their funding for his expeditions. He once again found ice and no matter what he did he couldn't get past it. On his third voyage he used a ship called the Half-moon, it carried a mixed crew of dutch and english sailors. While in Amsterdam gathering supplies, Hudson heard reports of two possible channels running across North America to the Pacific. Hudson departed from Holland on the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) in April 1609, but when adverse conditions again blocked his route northeast, he ignored his agreement with his employers to return directly and decided to sail to the New World in search of the Northwest Passage.
After landing in Newfoundland, Canada, Hudson’s expedition traveled south along the Atlantic coast and put into the great river founded by Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524. They traveled up the river to what is now Albany, before deciding that it would not guide them all the way to the Pacific and turning back. From then the river would be known as the Hudson River. Hudson docked at Dartmouth, England, where English authorities acted to stop him and his other English squad from traveling in other nations. The ship’s records were sent to Holland, where release of Hudson’s discoveries spread quickly.A journal kept by Robert Juet has the details of the third voyage, restricted by the terms of his contract with the Company, Hudson found it all but impossible to sail through the frozen seas and fog. On July 17th, some natives in canoes approached their ship, he Natives were friendly and traded with Hudson and his men for some trinkets. They told Hudson about gold, silver and copper mines in the country. Hudson and his men cut a tree to replace a broken mast, filled water casks, caught lobsters, mended sails and again met with natives. The crew of the Half Moon became suspicious of the natives and several days later several of them went ashore with guns, raided a settlement and drove the Native Americans from their homes. There is no proof that Hudson let would allow his men to do this or if he had any control of his crew when it happened. Hudson was not the first European to discover the river that would become known as the Hudson. In 1524 Italian navigator Giovanni da Verazzano, sailing for King Francis I of France, had discovered the river 85 years before Henry Hudson had found it. Hudson was the first to sail up the river. Hudson and his crew explored the banks and shorelines, interacting with the friendly natives. On his fourth and final voyage that was ran by the Muscovy Company, they changed their minds after losing interest in him after his second voyage. Hudson and his crew left London on April 17th 1610 to find a sea route to Asia. Henry Hudson died on Hudson Bay him and his crew were never heard from again. He died on July 22, 1611, after spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, and his crew was arrested for the mutiny.Henry Hudson sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the eight others were never seen again.