Henry Hudson's 1609 Expedition Arrested in England


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Happened: 1609-11-07

Description

On 23 September, Hudson decided to return to Europe. He put in at Dartmouth, England on 7 November, and was detained by authorities who wanted access to his log. He managed to pass the log to the Dutch ambassador to England, who sent it, along with his report, to Amsterdam.

Another account says:
On his return, Hudson stopped in England, where he was arrested for sailing under another nation's flag, considered treason at the time. He and his crew stayed in England while the Dutch ship and the Dutch sailors in the crew went home, apparently with Hudson's record of the voyage.

The Half Moon returned, sailing into Dartmouth (England, not Holland) after being away 7 1/2 months. Robert Juet (who may have been Hudson's clerk, since it was recorded the mate was Dutch) recorded in his journal, "by the grace of God we safely arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire." There is no record left to say why Hudson chose to land in England, rather than continue on to Amsterdam. His ship was not damaged and there was nothing recorded to suggest supplies were running out.

Van Meteren wrote, "At last they arrived at Dartmouth, in England, the 7th of November, whence they informed their employers, the Directors in Holland, of their voyage. They proposed to them to go out again for a search in the northwest, and that, besides the pay, and what they already had in the ship, fifteen hundred florins should be laid out for an additional supply of provisions. He [Hudson] also wanted six or seven of his crew exchanged for others, and their number raised to twenty. He would then sail from Dartmouth about the 1st of March, so as to be in the northwest towards the end of that month, and there to spend the whole of April and the first half of May in killing whales and other animals in the neighborhood of Panar Island, then to sail to the northwest, and there to pass the time till the middle of September, and then to return to Holland around the northeastern coast of Scotland. Thus this voyage ended."

Expeditions

NameBegin DateEnd DateStart Head CountEnd Head Count
Henry Hudson's 1609 Voyage 1609 1609