Tuck and Son's Depiction of "Hudson Landing from the 'Half-Moon'"
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Hudson-Fulton Celebration Series 164 Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, while searching for a short passage to China and India, sailed by chance into what is now New York Bay; he started up the river that to-day bears his name on Sept. 24, 1609, in his ship, the "Half-Moon". This voyage ended about where Albany now stands, and on Oct. 4ty, he set sail on his return journey to Amsterdam. Hudson was eleven days navigating up the river, a distance that is now traversed in as many hours. |
