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Halve Maen

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Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
Halve Maen
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+31 229 210 205

Address:
Centre Sailing Heritage | Oostereiland, Hoorn, The Netherlands

Halve Maen was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot which sailed into what is now New York Harbor in September 1609. She was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to covertly find a western passage to China. The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic.In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen in order to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a 1934 fire. Fifty years later, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a second replica.
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