The Mutiny of Henry Hudson

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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June 22, 1611. It’s been a long, cold winter. Henry Hudson and his crew have been stranded in the Canadian Arctic for months, living on the ice in wooden shacks - starving, sick, and ready to go home. And yet, Hudson wants to carry on and search for the Northwest Passage, a theoretical trading route to the Pacific that could bring him untold fortunes. His crew has had enough. How does this journey go so wrong? And what happens when you push a crew of sailors beyond the extreme? Special thanks to Peter Mancall, historian at the University of Southern California and author of Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	History this week, June 22, 1611. I'm Sally Helm.
0:45.0	It's not been an easy time in Henry Hudson's life. He and his men have been stranded in the
0:52.0	Canadian Arctic. Their ship, the discovery, got stuck in the ice, and the men have been stranded in the Canadian Arctic. Their ship, the discovery, got stuck in the ice.
0:58.0	And the men have been living in crude wooden shacks on the coast,
1:01.0	with barely any food or heat, starving, freezing, waiting for the ice to thaw.
1:08.0	Now it's thawing. And understandably, a lot of Hudson's men want to go home.
1:17.5	They've been gone for more than a year, and it seems like their mission is a bust. But the captain,
1:23.8	he wants to keep going. He still thinks they can accomplish their goal,
1:29.4	finding the Northwest Passage,
1:32.4	a theoretical trading route between Europe and South Asia
1:35.2	that would bring untold riches to the man who discovers it.
1:51.6	When Henry Hudson emerges from his cabin aboard the discovery this morning, the rough time he's having gets much, much worse.
1:56.5	His crew attacks.
2:00.2	Their captain shouts, demanding to know what's going on, and he's told,
2:04.6	you'll know when you're in the shallop.
2:06.6	That's a smaller boat tied to the discovery, used for fishing and shore excursions.
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