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Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 under Zachariah Gillam, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. [1] Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch , the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.
In addition, availability alone fails to explain the general popularity of New England-built tonnage in other colonies. Cost may have been the decisive factor. After all, among the American colonies, New England shipyards produced the most tonnage and often had the lowest building rates. Convenience must have been an important attraction also.
In New England in the 1600s, the ketch was a small coastal working watercraft. In the 1700s, it disappeared from contemporary records, apparently replaced by the schooner . [ 4 ] The ketch rig remained popular in America throughout the 19th and early 20th century working watercraft, with well-known examples being the Chesapeake Bay bugeyes, New ...
The force, which was placed under the command of Colonel John March, totalled 1,150 soldiers and 450 sailors, and was carried by a fleet of 24 ships, including the 50-gun Royal Navy warship Deptford under the command of Captain Charles Stuckley, and the 24-gun New England ketch Province Galley led by Cyprian Southack.
The English royal charters granted land in the north to the Plymouth Company and land in the south to the London Company. England, France, and the Netherlands made several attempts to colonize New England early in the 17th century, and those nations were often in contention over lands in the New World.
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Boadicea is another example of a well-preserved smaller smack. She was built in Maldon, Essex , in 1808. [ 4 ] The last working Class One East Coast Smack, Britannia , built in King's Lynn in 1914 and currently undergoing a restoration in Devon, was scheduled to be relaunched in April 2022 though that has been delayed.