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VERPLANCK — Half Moon Captain William "Chip" Reynolds safely rode out Hurricane Sandy aboard the replica of Henry Hudson's 17th-century sailing ship at East Hartford, Conn., on the Connecticut ...
the day a ship captained by Henry Hudson anchored near the mouth of the river that now bears his name. Hudson was sailing on behalf of the Dutch aboard the Half Moon (a ship that was recreated in ...
SCHENECTADY — After Henry Hudson's Half Moon left the river that ... That would be Dutch traders sailing small ships, such as merchant captain Adriaen Block's Onrust, a 56-foot-long, 29-ton ...
Henry Hudson, by contrast ... he sailed south to spend the winter in James Bay, where the ship became locked in ice. The conditions were almost unbearable. Human flesh froze quickly there ...
Saturday saw one of the many festivities celebrating the 400 year anniversary of Henry Hudson's visit to the area—the launch of River Day, with a flotilla of ships, including a replica of Hudson ...
Henry Hudson, the English explorer who gave his name to New York’s Hudson River and Canada’s Hudson Bay, lost his sailing ship to mutineers. They left him, his teenage son and seven men in a ...
"We will never know where and why exactly arrows were slung, ships anchored, massacres initiated, navigators -- in the case of Henry Hudson himself -- mutinied and banished. We can continuously ...
AMSTERDAM, April 17. -- A replica of the Half Moon, in which Henry Hudson started in his quest for a new route to China to discover and explore the Hudson River, is being constructed here by ...
Before he ascended the estuary though, Hudson stopped at a small freshwater spring in what is now Atlantic Highlands to collect water for his ship the Half Moon. The spring, now known as Henry ...
Wayne Hall The hull of the Onrust, a model of the ship Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. Wayne Hall Project director Greta Wagle was the heart and soul of the project's construction ...
On that day, Henry Hudson’s Half Moon sailed up the river called the Mahicannituck by the peoples who had lived there for 10,000 years or more. This was not the first ship they had seen ...