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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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