During Family Day, the Houston Maritime Museum will explore Joshua Slocum's incredible story of sailing around the world alone. Young explorers will learn about Slocum's epic journey while creating ...

“I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston.” With these words, Capt.

1898: Joshua Slocum completes a solo voyage lasting nearly three years, becoming the first sailor to circumnavigate alone. Slocum, born within sight of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy in 1844, ran away ...

Last week we learned about the first solo around-the-world sailor, Joshua Slocum. It is fitting that we finish the Slocum story this Independence Day weekend. You may recall our story ended as Joshua ...

WHEN a small sloop made its way into Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, in 1898 it had to negotiate mines and a warship, but skipper Joshua Slocum and his boat Spray passed through into legend, as they ...

FAIRHAVEN — He’s the first man to have sailed around the world solo, but sadly, never returned from his final voyage. It’s what you do while you are alive that leaves a mark on the world, and Capt.

CAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM (384 pp.)—Victor Slocum—Sheridan House ($5). Nobody else wanted the old sloop; for years she had been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, ...

1898: Joshua Slocum completes a solo voyage lasting nearly three years, becoming the first sailor to circumnavigate alone. Slocum, born within sight of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy in 1844, ran away ...