Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova...
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19th-century Canadian-American seaman and author Joshua Slocum during the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth. Slocum departed Boston Harbor in the 36-foot-9-inch...
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World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail...
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painter, particularly of portraits Joshua W. Sill (1831–1862), American (Union) Civil War brigadier general Joshua Slocum (1844–1909), Canadian-American seaman...
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Slocum may refer to: Bill Slocum, American politician Craig Slocum, American actor Frances Slocum, adopted member of the Miami tribe Frederick Slocum...
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Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum (section Joshua Slocum)
surrounding communities as well as rural school life and the famous mariner Joshua Slocum who attended the school in the 1850s. The school was built in 1850....
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noteworthy achievement. Sailor Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the world in 1895–1898, and the Joshua Slocum Society International presented...
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Underwater glider (redirect from Slocum glider)
proposed a glider concept called Slocum, developed with research engineer Doug Webb. They named the glider after Joshua Slocum, who made the first solo circumnavigation...
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author of six novels; biographies of Harry Crosby, John O'Hara, and Joshua Slocum; a volume of essays, and other works of non-fiction in several genres...
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Bernard Moitessier (section Wreck of the Joshua)
book, he commissioned a 39-foot steel ketch which he named Joshua, in honour of Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world solo. Finally he...
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2016-03-27. Joshua Slocum Society Archived 2010-01-10 at the Wayback Machine. Slocum (1899), Sailing Alone Around the World "1898: Joshua Slocum Completes...
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The fame Nova Scotia achieved from sailors was assured in 1895 when Joshua Slocum became the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. International...
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Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Capt Joshua Slocum. It was in Moka, in September of 1897, that Capt Joshua Slocum visited the then existing Moka Flower...
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The accuracy of the sights is indicated by the size of the triangle. Joshua Slocum used both noon sight and star sight navigation to determine his current...
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single-handedly from 1921 to 1925. Pidgeon thus became the second person, after Joshua Slocum, to do so. He accounts for his adventures in his book, Around the World...
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globe for the first time in history. The first solo record was set by Joshua Slocum in the Spray (1898). The current record holders are IDEC 3, skippered...
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single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 March 1976, and returned there...
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Heart alludes to picking oakum as a punishment among the Sea Folk. Joshua Slocum in Sailing Alone Around the World, describes caulking his ship the Spray...
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from 1,100 in 1855 to only 288 in 1889. On 11 April 1898, American Joshua Slocum, on his solo round-the-world voyage, arrived at Jamestown. He departed...
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them he moved his family to live on one of the islands in 1827. Only Joshua Slocum used different dates, when he wrote that "John Clunis-Ross, who in 1814...
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to sail single-handedly around the world (1921-1925), 23 years after Joshua Slocum. Pidgeon was the first person to sail a yacht around the world via the...
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(1892–1896) and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) are classics of outdoor literature. In April 1895, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston...
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and so many sailors seek it for its own sake.[unreliable source?] Joshua Slocum was the first single-handed yachtsman to successfully pass this way...
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Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. It is the birthplace of the mariner Joshua Slocum and of Clara Belle Marshall, the first woman to graduate from Acadia...
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Villaamil; 1892–1894; aboard Nautilus; first training ship circumnavigation. Joshua Slocum; 1895–1898; first single-handed circumnavigation. The Great White Fleet;...
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longitude, or about 15 nautical miles (28 km) at the equator. Captain Joshua Slocum, in making the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth in 1895–1898...
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the world, Joshua Slocum encountered a group of flat-Earthers in Durban, South Africa. Three Boers, one of them a clergyman, presented Slocum with a pamphlet...
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circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by Joshua Slocum in 1898 but it took him three years with numerous stops – Slocum also took up the harder challenge of...
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ISBN 978-1-371-28632-3. Slocum, Joshua (January 1, 2009) [1900]. Sailing Alone Around the World. The Floating Press. pp. 80–90. Slocum, Joshua (March 1, 2009)...
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introduced. Joshua Slocum mentions Selkirk in the book Sailing Alone Around the World (1900). During his visit to the Juan Fernández Islands, Slocum runs across...
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