page_title: Halve Maen
section_title: 1989 replica
hierarchical_section_title: Halve Maen / Replicas / 1989 replica
context_page_description: Halve Maen was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot that 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 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Fifty years later, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a second replica.
context_section_description: Another replica of Halve Maen (officially Anglicized as Half Moon) was constructed in Albany, New York in 1989 by the New Netherland Museum. The museum contracted with Nicholas S. Benton to design and build the replica. Benton, a master ship-rigger and shipwright, was president of the Rigging Gang of Middletown, Rhode Island, which specialized in colonial ship restoration and design. To prepare for building Half Moon, a $1 million project, he visited maritime museums in the Netherlands and the United States. After his death while assisting with the rigging of another vessel, the construction of the Half Moon was completed by the New Netherland Museum.
  The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Halve Maen's voyage. For the anniversary, the crown prince of the Netherlands and his wife were on board, as well as students from a Dutch school. This anniversary was marked in September 2009 with festivals, music, sailing ships parading around New York Harbor.
  The replica ship sails in and around the Hudson River and serves as a traveling museum that conducts programs for youth and adults about the history of the Dutch colony called New Netherland.  With its voyages of discovery and 4th and 7th grade interdisciplinary curricula, the ship pursues a comprehensive education program.  A non-for-profit organization, Half Moon is run by a crew of volunteers that range in age from their teens to octogenarians.
  In April 2015 the ship was transported on loan to the Netherlands. She is located at the West Frisian Ship Museum in Hoorn and open to the public at a permanent mooring at the Oostereiland at the Centre Sailing Heritage.  The replica took part in SAIL Amsterdam 2015. The Hoorn city council recently announced that 2019 will be the final year for the replica in the Dutch harbour. After 2019 the ship will be transported back to its American owner.
caption: The Halve Maen on the obverse of the United States 1935 commemorative Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar
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