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Thomas James (sea captain)

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The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea wherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning, and the rarities observed, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this journall of it,
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as a wintering post. On 29 November the ship was deliberately sunk to keep her from being swept away or crushed by ice. The ship was refloated in June. He left of 1 July 1632, took 3 weeks to exit James Bay, worked his way north through ice, reached the mouth of Hudson Strait, went north into
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published by His Majesties command : to which are added a plat or card for the sayling in those seas, divers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. : with an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Geophy of these late discoveries by W.W
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He named the southern coast of Hudson Bay the "New Principality of South Wales", after his native land. James' harrowing experiences during his voyage, in which he repeatedly came close to death in the ice of the
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appointed him to lead their expedition in 1631, they referred to him as skilled navigator and mathematician, suggesting he was both experienced and respected.
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Google Books scan of The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James, in "The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe and Captain Thomas James"
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Two map details and an excerpt from James's voyage account, where he tells how, on 3 September 1631, Cape Henrietta Maria was named after
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Some critics think that Coleridge drew upon James's account of hardship and lamentation in writing The rime of the ancient mariner.
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The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-west Passage, in 1631-32,
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only to 65°30', turned back and reached Bristol on 22 October in a vessel that was barely seaworthy.
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Internet Archive .pdf of The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, First Edition
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James's map of his 1631-1632 exploration of Hudson Bay and James Bay
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Bristol, Historical Association (Bristol Branch), 1967, pp. 4-5.
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Bristol, Historical Association (Bristol Branch), 1967, p.4.
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The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
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at Cape Henrietta Maria (which James named after the
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James was probably born in 1590 at Wern-y-cym, near
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Abergavenny
Wales
Bristol
England

Northwest Passage
North America
Asia
Abergavenny
Wales
Society of Merchant Venturers
Bristol
Map of the voyage of Thomas James
Bristol
Hudson Strait
Luke Foxe
Churchill, Manitoba
James Bay
wife of King Charles I
Charlton Island
Foxe Channel
Arctic Ocean
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Arctic
Title page of James's voyage account
The Henrietta Maria
Cape Henrietta Maria
Queen Henrietta Maria

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