The crew didn’t think much of his cooking he was “chucked out” and returned home. Picture: Century Magazine, September 1899.Īt age eight he was “afloat along with other boys on the bay” and at 14 he ran away to sea, where his first job was in the galley. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world solo. While his father was a farmer and shoemaker, Slocum said “on both sides my family were sailors and if any Slocum should be found not seafaring, he will show at least an inclination to whittle models of boats and contemplate voyages”.
Born in Nova Scotia on February 20, 1844, he was the fifth of 11 children of John and Sarah. It was the grit and determination he had shown throughout his life - most of which was spent on the ocean - that saw him through.įrom a young age Slocum believed he was destined for the sea. He prevailed against storms, pirates, and even an attempt to put him in prison in Australia. Sailing solo around the world is still tough, but Slocum did it without any modern navigational aids, relying mostly on charts, the stars, a tin clock and his wits.
Slocum headed for shore where “at 1am on June 27, 1898, he cast anchor, after the cruise of more than 46,000 miles round the world” completing the world’s first solo circumnavigation, Fortunately, one of the sailors recognised Joshua Slocum’s famous vessel the Spray and shouted: “Spray, ahoy!” There was always the possibility a nervous crewman might opened fire on the vessel, especially now that the US was at war with Spain. The principal speaker at the dedication ceremony was Slocum’s biographer William Magnes Teller.IT was in the early hours of the morning that the sloop cautiously negotiated the mines and warship at the entry to Newport Harbour, Rhode Island. The monument in the park was dedicated on April 18, 1959. Slocum’s book Sailing Alone Around the World, first published in 1900, is still in print and has been translated into many languages. On July 3 of that year, he sailed the Spray back to her birthplace in Fairhaven. When landed at Newport, RI in June of 1898, Slocum became the first man to have sailed around the world alone. In April of 1895, Slocum set sail from Boston on a three-year voyage around the globe. He remained in Fairhaven for a short time afterward and tried fishing for a season, but without much luck. Slocum began his rebuilding of the Spray in 1891 and launched his fully overhauled vessel on June 21, 1892. The small vessel (36 feet, 9 inches) had been given to Slocum by Poverty Point resident Capt. This boulder marks the place near which Captain Joshua Slocumpainstakingly rebuilt an antiquated oyster boat, Spray.
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