In 1602 the Dutch started a trading business called the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 Hudson set off from the Netherlands wit a crew of 20. They sailed in a ship called the Half Moon. In 1610 England hired Hudson to find the Northwest Passage. He discovered a 450- mile-long passageway which he had found the Northwest passage. In June of 1611, when the weather warmed, Hudson set sail. The crew thought Hudson was sailing back home to England, but they soon realized that he was sailing west to continue searching for the Northwest passage. Then some needed to go home cause they did not want their lives to end. So they kicked Hudson, his son, and seven other loyal crewmen into a small boat with no oars, and left them in the bay. Hudson and the others in the boat were never heard from again, except the men that stole the ship went home and got to see their families again.