Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - on or shortly after 14 November
1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted
writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.
In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the
World. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his
sloop-rigged fishing boat. Captain Slocum, a highly experienced
navigator and ship-owner, rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop
Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts during a
thirteen-month period between early 1893 and 1894. Between April
24, 1895 and June 27, 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the
Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated
the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited
Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the
third time) to reach home after a journey of 46,000 miles.
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