In 1605, Knight took part in a Danish expedition to Greenland, led by John Cunningham with James Hall as pilot.
On 30 May, at latitude 59° 50′, they sighted high land, which they called Cape Christian, but the ice prevented them from reaching it.
[2] In England in the following year he was employed on a joint venture of the Russia and East India Companies to find the Northwest Passage.
[3] In the Hopewell of forty tons he sailed from Gravesend, Kent, on 18 April 1606, and, leaving the Orkney Islands on 12 May, fell in with a large ice field, and after a long passage made the coast of Labrador, in about lat.
The survivors on board repaired the ship as they best could, with some opposition from local people, and so reached Newfoundland, from where they sailed on 22 August, and arrived at Dartmouth, Devon on 24 September.