He set sail in 1895, and returned more than 3 years later in 1898.
After a journey of some 46,000 miles, Joshua Slocum completed the first solo navigation of the world when he reached Newport, Rhode Island on June 27th, 1898.
1895, arriving 1898.
He was a Canadian-born 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.
Joshua Slocum is famous for having been the first man to circumnavigate the globe, sailing solo. He was born in Novia Scotia, but became a naturalized American. He wrote an international best-seller in 1900 regarding his trip.
The first person to sail around the world alone was Joshua Slocum.He set sail aboard his home-built craft,the Spray,in 1898 and completed the 73,600 kilometres in 1,158 days-stopping several times on the way.In 1969,Robin Knox Johnston became the first person to sail around the world alone non-stop.He took 312 days and 1 hour to travel 48,167 kilometres in his yacht Suhaili.By:Ezra L. Agaldang
He first suggested that the Earth (and the other planets that were then known) rotated around the Sun instead of the other way around.
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Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum
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Joshua Slocum
The first person to sail around the world alone was Captain Joshua Slocum in his 37ft sloop the "Spray". He was 51 years old and the voyage took him three years to complete.
Ferdinand Magellan got the credit for that. But the first man to do it SOLO was Joshua Slocum, back at the turn of the 20th century, in the "Spray."
Joshua Slocum did it aboard the SPRAY in 1895...alone (with stop-overs).
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum, a Canadian sailor.
He was a Canadian-born 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.
Joshua Slocum is famous for having been the first man to circumnavigate the globe, sailing solo. He was born in Novia Scotia, but became a naturalized American. He wrote an international best-seller in 1900 regarding his trip.
The first person to sail around the world alone was Joshua Slocum.He set saul aboard his home-built craft,the Spray,in 1898 and completed the 73,600 kilometres in 1,158 days-stopping several times on the way.In 1969,Robin Knox Johnston became the first person to sail around the world alone non-stop.He took 312 days and 1 hour to travel 48,167 kilometres in his yacht Suhaili.By:Ezra L. Agaldang