Nonsuch (1654 - 1667)
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:17 pm
Ketch, 8 guns, built in 1650 by a Mr Page at Wivenhoe, Essex. Purchased in 1654 for the fleet. Waterline length 36ft, width 15ft. 47 tons bm or 43 tons burthen.
Sold in 1667 to the founders of the Company of Adventurers in England trading to Hudson's Bay.
She sailed into Hudson's Bay in 1668 and collected a cargo of beaverskins which sold for £20,000 on her return to London in October, 1669.
Charles II then gave to his cousin Prince Rupert the Charter for the Hudson's Bay Company which provided it with sole rights for fur trading in it's area.
SG624 The Royal Navy on Stamps ptI by Ernest Argyle