Back Halve Maen (Schiff, 1608) German Halve Maen Esperanto Halve Maen Estonian Halve Maen (navire) French Halve Maen (schip, 1608) Dutch Halve Maen (1609) Polish Халве Ман (корабль, 1608 год) Russian Halve Maen (корабель) Ukrainian 半月號 Chinese
 19th-century illustration of the Halve Maen
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| Name | Halve Maen |
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| Completed | 1608 |
| Fate | Destroyed |
Halve Maen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑlvə maːn]; English: Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company jacht[1] (similar to a carrack) that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in September 1609. She had a length of 21 metres and was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to covertly find a northern passage to Asia. The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic.[2]
In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a second replica.
- ^ "Data VOC ship Halve Maan 1608". De VOC Site. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Strangers in a New Land". Americanheritage.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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