11. The following table shows that the employment of small vessels was the principle at first followed, although the English undertakings even of this present century never thoroughly adopted the example of a Fotherby, a Baffin, and a Ross:— +------------------------+---------------+---------------+-----+ | THE EXPEDITIONS OF |TONNAGE OF THE |PROVISIONED FOR|CREW.| | | SHIPS. | | | +------------+-----------+---------------+---------------+-----+ | | | | | | | | A.D. | | | | |Willoughby | 1553 |120| 90|160| | 18 months | | |Frobisher | 1576 | 25| 25| 10| | | | | ” | 1577 |180| 30| 30| |} | | |Pett Jackman| 1580 | 40| 20| | |} | 15 | |Davis | 1585 | 50| 35| | |} | 42 | | ” |2nd expedn.| 10| 50| 53|120|} | | |Weymouth | 1604 | 70| 60| | |} | | |Knight | 1606 | 40| | | |}Mostly for } | | |Hudson | 1607 | | | | |}one year } | 10 | | ” | 1608 | | | | |}only. } | 15 | |James Poole | 1609 | 70| | | |} | 15 | |Hudson | 1610 | 55| | | |} | | |Smith | 1610 | 50| | | |} | | |James Poole | 1611 | 50| | | |} | | |Fotherby | 1615 | 20| | | |} | | |Baffin | 1616 | 58| | | |} | | |Fox | 1631 | 80| | | | 18 months | 20 | |James | 1631 | 70| | | | 18 ” | | |Wood | 1676 | | | | | 16 ” | 19 | |Moor | 1746 |180|140| | | | | |Ross | 1818 |385|252| | | | | |Parry | 1819 |375|180| | | 2½ years | | |Lütke | 1821 |200| | | | | 45 | |Hayes | 1860 |133| | | | 1½ ” | 15 | |Koldewey | 1869 |180|200| | | 2 ” | 29 | +------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---------------+-----+