Half Moon
HALF MOON,
HALF MOON, the ship the Dutch East India Company provided for the voyage of exploration made by Henry Hudson in 1609, in the course of which the Hudson River was discovered. A vessel of eighty tons, it was a flat-bottomed two-master. Called by the Dutch a vlieboot, a term derived from the island of Vlieland, it has been translated into English, without reference to its derivations, as "flyboat." Later employed in the East India trade, the Half Moon was wrecked in 1615 on the shore of the island of Mauritius, then owned by the Dutch.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Syme, Ronald. Henry Hudson. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
A. C.Flick/a. r.
See alsoAlbany ; Explorations and Expeditions: British ; New York State .
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