Explorer Gazette
June 1611
In 1610 England hired Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage. Henry sailed on a ship called the Discovery . He was sure he had found the Northwest passage when he discovered a 450 mile long passage way . Henry kept searching for a water route to the Pacific Ocean . When winter came the bay he was in froze over . Him and his crew spent a long winter in a log hut . In 1611 when the weather warm , Henry set sail . His crew thought he was sailing back home , but no he was sailing west to continue searching for the Northwest passage . Wanting to go home Henry’s angry crew put Henry , his son, and seven other crew men in a small boat with no oars and left him in the bay . Henry Hudson and the others were never heard from again . I think Henry and the others may have died from starvation because he had no supplies nothing to warm them self . Him and the others probably lasted for a few days , but not for a week . I think that ‘s what happened to Henry Hudson .