Discovery (1602 ship)
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Discovery was a small 20-ton, 38-foot long "fly-boat" of the English East India Company, launched before 1602. It was one of the three ships on the 1606–1607 voyage to the New World for the English Vi
Discovery on stained glass window in St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.
Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, commemorated on the Virginia State Quarter
Henry Hudson
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Henry Hudson 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.
Discovery (1602 ship)
…in search of the Northwest Passage. During the 1610–1611 expedition in the Canadian Arctic, the crew of Discovery mutinied, and set their captain Henry Hudson adrift in a small boat; he was not seen again, and the crew returned to England. Replicas of Discovery and her sister ships, the larger Susan Constant…
One of many speculative portraits
Replica of the Halve Maen
Landing of Henry Hudson, 1609, at Verplanck Point, New York, by Robert Walter Weir
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, John Collier's 1881 painting of Hudson, his son, and loyal crew set adrift