BUILT FOR SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY.—The 53ft ketch Nonsuch photographed after being launched from a small shipyard in Devon, England. She is being built, by the methods of three centuries ago, as part of the three-hundredth anniversary celebrations in 1970 of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The craft will be a replica of the tiny vessel which sailed from the Thames to Hudson Bay in 1668 and returned with a cargo of furs in 1669, resulting in the incorporation—by Royal Charter of King Charles II—of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson Bay on May 2, 1670. After being on show in various parts of England, the Nonsuch will be sailed to Canada in 1970, the centennial year of the Province of Manitoba.

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 14

BUILT FOR SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY.—The 53ft ketch Nonsuch photographed after being launched from a small shipyard in Devon, England. She is being built, by the methods of three centuries ago, as part of the three-hundredth anniversary celebrations in 1970 of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The craft will be a replica of the tiny vessel which sailed from the Thames to Hudson Bay in 1668 and returned with a cargo of furs in 1669, resulting in the incorporation—by Royal Charter of King Charles II—of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson Bay on May 2, 1670. After being on show in various parts of England, the Nonsuch will be sailed to Canada in 1970, the centennial year of the Province of Manitoba.