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	Joshua Slocum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after 14 November 1909) was a Canadian-born American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.
		Joshua Slocum was the fifth son of John Slocum and Sarah Jane (Southern) Slocum.
		Slocum's life was given novelistic treatment by author Cameron Royce Jess in the award-winning 2004 release Soul Voyage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_Slocum (675 words)

	D2 Press- Cool Dead People - Suzanne Nielsen Joshua Slocum
		Joshua Slocum swam out of the birth canal on February 20th (almost a water sign), 1844, to a weary woman in Nova Scotia who bore a total of 11 children.
		Slocum remained supercilious about giving in to the steam ships and when he was offered the rattle-scattle ship, the Spray, from retired whaling captain, Eben Pierce; he worked day and night reconstructing the boat so it could someday set sail.
		Slocum must have seen his share of phosphorescence as he stated shortly after sail of the Spray, "Every particle of water thrown into the air became a gem, and the Spray, making good her name as she dashed ahead, snatched necklace after necklace from the sea, and as often threw them away."
	www.doubledarepress.com /2002/10/columns/dead-people.shtml (1391 words)

	Horton Journal of Canadian History
		Joshua Slocum was born into a poor family, whereas his father was only a shoemaker.
		Slocum was the second mate of a fishing schooner by the age of eighteen and became first mate in 1869 at twenty-five.
		Joshua never fully recovered from her death, but two years later he became extremely lonely and married his first cousin, Henrietta Miller Elliott who was 24 and pretty.
	www.angelfire.com /ns2/hjch2001/Cosman.htm (1190 words)

	Joshua Slocum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Captain Joshua Slocum was born on 20 February 1844 in Nova Scotia.
		Slocum was determined to become the first man to single-handedly sail around the globe.
		Slocum rapidly became a celebrity as news of each leg was broadcast throughout the western world.
	www.cblights.com /cruising/joshuaslocum.asp (1279 words)

	Captain Joshua Slocum (1844-1909?)
		Captain Joshua Slocum was born in Nova Scotia.
		Joshua never fully recovered from Virginia's death in 1884, although, lonely, he married a first cousin, Hettie, in 1886.
		Slocum's solo circumnavigation, as he describes for himself in his third book, was well planned.
	www.eldritchpress.org /js/slocum.htm (608 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Joshua was a cook on a local fishing boat for a while.
		Slocum moved to larger ships twice, and remembered the second, the Northern Light, as the “finest American sailing-vessel afloat.” But the age of sail was ending.
		Slocum and his family built the Liberdade from local materials and sailed it to Washington, where the vessel was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41193 (1638 words)

	Slocum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slocum, a series of adult-oriented western novels by Jake Logan.
		Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail single handed around the world.
		Slocum Crater on the moon, named after Frederick Slocum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slocum (138 words)

	NewStandard: 12/21/97
		Slocum's ties to Fairhaven were strong, for it was here that he refurbished the old Chesapeake Bay oyster boat that would become the Spray and take him on his 45,000-mile worldwide quest to become the first solo navigator of the globe.
		Slocum left his home in Brier Island, Nova Scotia, at the age of 14 to go to sea in a fishing schooner and within two years had become a seamen out of Liverpool, England, on ocean-trekking merchantmen that plied the seas to China, California, Australia, Malaysia and other exotic foreign ports.
		Slocum was out of work and down on his luck when Capt. Eben Pierce, a Fairhaven whaling captain who knew Capt. Slocum, invited him to come down to Fairhaven and rebuild a battered wreck of an oyster boat.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-97/12-21-97/c03lo110.htm (976 words)

	JOSHUA SLOCUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Captain Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) was the first man to sail around the world alone.
		Joshua was born in Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, but came to Westport, which was his mother's birthplace, in 1852 at the age of eight.
		In honour of Joshua Slocum's voyage, a monument has been erected in Westport to commemorate this piece of history.
	www.municipalities.com /islandscap/slocum.htm (195 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Joshua is celebrated as the first man to sail around the world alone between 1895 and 1898.
		Joshua was born in Mount Hanly, Wilmot Township, in 1844 but moved to the western tip of Nova Scotia at Westport, Brier Island, when a child.
		Slocum’s reputation grew with the publication in 1899 and 1900 of his serialized “Sailing alone around the world” in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine and with the release of it in book form in 1900.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume5/76-77.htm (740 words)

	captain joshua slocum the man
		'Slocum the exile', a Quaker who left America (circa 1783) because of his opposition to war, was considered a loyalist by the British government of Nova Scotia, and as such was granted 500 acres of farmland.
		She sailed with Slocum, giving birth to 3 sons and one daughter (all on board ship), until she died on the 25th of July 1884 aged 35.
		Joshua, Henrietta and two of the sons sailed Liberdade 5,500 miles to Washington D.C. This was effectively the end of Slocum's professional sailing career.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~tim-jac/slocum/captjosh.html (776 words)

	Joshua Slocum
		The Romance of Joshua Slocum by Jeanette Dexter MG 100 Vol.
		A great-grandson of the Loyalist, John Slocum, he was born at Mount Hanley in 1844, fifth in the family of eleven children of John and Sarah (Southern) Slocomb.
		At the age of fourteen Joshua ran away to sea, and at sixteen shipped to Dublin on a deal drogher and thus began his deep-sea adventures.
	home.earthlink.net /~jimpool/genealogy/sources/joshua.html (713 words)

	The Millicent Library's Joshua Slocum Page
		Slocum rebuilt the Spray plank-by-plank as it stood in a field in the Poverty Point area of Oxford, one of the oldest sections of Fairhaven.
		The public was invited to join the Joshua Slocum Centennial Committee of Fairhaven in the day-long festivities.
		Captain Joshua Slocum, the intrepid navigator, who in April, 1895, started from Boston in the 33 foot yawl Spray on a trip around the world, dropped anchor above the bridge, within a short distance from the spot where the Spray was built, Sunday.
	www.millicentlibrary.org /slocum.htm (787 words)

	Joshua Slocum and His Travels
		Slocum prints Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil in 1884, again at his own expense.
		Slocum departs from Boston Harbor, MA on his famous circumnavigation on April 24, 1895, at the age of 51, in the rebuilt 37-foot sloop Spray.
		Slocum returns, sailing into Newport, RI, on June 27, 1898 in his tiny sloop Spray and after single-handedly sailing around the world, a passage of 46,000 miles.
	www.joshuaslocumsocietyintl.org /jshistory.htm (462 words)

	Joshua Slocum article in Smithsonian - May 1998
		Luckily, *Slocums** own account of his journey was the best press he could have received: Sailing Alone Around the World brought fame and admiration for its enigmatic author, called a sea-locked Thoreau despite a third-grade education.
		Joshua Slocum was the first to do it, a hundred years ago, then wrote about it; the world is still awed by his seamanship--and his prose
		Slocum is a legend among those who sail small boats around the world, and there are Slocum Societies on three continents.
	www.mcallen.lib.tx.us /orgs/slo_smit.htm (612 words)

	Joshua Slocum Society International
		The Joshua Slocum Society International (JSSI) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1955, of cruising sailors, writers, and people interested in the historical personage of Capt. Joshua Slocum and his legacy.
		Joshua Slocum's voyage, on the Liberdade from Brazil to the East Coast of USA has been recently recreated.
		The Slocum Spray Society of Australia another organization dedicated to the memory of and accomplishments of Joshua Slocum.
	www.mcallen.lib.tx.us /orgs/slocum.htm (649 words)

	NewStandard: 1/4/97
		FAIRHAVEN -- The people coordinating the centennial celebration of Joshua Slocum's solo voyage around the world will not something like a rejection by the federal government dampen their enthusiasm.
		"Joshua Slocum was born in Canada, but he was a naturalized American when he sailed around the world single-handed.
		Slocum sailed around the world by himself in the 37-foot sloop Spray from 1895-1898, landing in the United States at Newport, R.I. The Slocum panel is charting the historic voyage again.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-97/01-04-97/a05lo041.htm (400 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Joshua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Named for the first single-handed circumnavigator, Joshua Slocum, Bernard Moitessier's ketch was built with the proceeds of To the Reefs, a book about his adventures en route from French Indochina to the Caribbean.
		One of the later starters, the powerful Joshua gained steadily on Suhaili, and many thought it possible she would win the Golden Globe, though as Moitessier carried no radio, no one knew for sure.
		Moitessier and Joshua remained in Tahiti until 1980, when he decided to try his hand on the American lecture circuit.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_050600_joshua.htm (357 words)

	Points East Profiles: Living and sailing in the shadow of Joshua Slocum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They always said, "The Spray will come back." Of course, they were referring to the 36-foot sloop Spray that Joshua Slocum sailed around the world in the late 1800s.
		Slocum actually did return to his native Nova Scotia in 1901, three years after completing his round-the-world, single-handed sailing trip.
		Slocum once said that to be self-contained on a small voyage one must have "thoughts beyond the limits of a single day." As Jon recounts his adventurous life, it is clear he has always had thoughts beyond the limits of a single day.
	www.pointseast.com /thegulf/040801slocum-pr.shtml (1616 words)

	Joshua Slocum - Captain Joshua Slocum was the first man to successfully circumnavigate or sail alone around the world
		At the age of 51, Captain Joshua Slocum was the first man to successfully circumnavigate or sail alone around the world, a journey of 46,000 miles.
		In the fall of 1909, Captain Slocum left on another exciting voyage to South America and was never seen or heard from again.
		His courageous journey has since inspired thousands of individuals, whether they be mariner or landlocked; young or old; to believe in themselves and have the courage to try their own adventures.
	www.joshuaslocum.com /history.htm (179 words)

	Joshua Slocum's Spray, Sailing photos, The Yacht Spray, Oasis Sailing Club Photos, Huntington Beach, California
		Except for a change - an improvement, I think - in the dimensions of the cabin, mine is an exact duplicate of Joshua Slocum's original Spray, even to the style of lettering on her transom: Spray...
		Actually, she is three inches shorter and four inches wider, a little deeper and a smidgeon heavier than the famed "sloop" that went around the world near the turn of the century and won a place for herself and her remarkable skipper in the salty pages of legend.
		It was in 1909, ten years after he completed his fantastic voyage and eight years after the resulting book had made him world famous, that Joshua Slocum departed on a single-handed journey to the West Indies, one that he had already made several times.
	parsec-santa.com /sail/spray.html (1961 words)

	Sailing Alone Around The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To sail around the world at the turn of the century in the 34 foot sloop he had built himself seemed relatively simple to Joshua Slocum.
		Slocum started going to sea when he was a young boy, but he quickly learned how to navigate big and small boats.
		In April of 1895, Slocum left Boston as a "crew of one" on the Spray, and sailed across the Atlantic to Gibraltar.
	www.sonic.net /~barny/sailing.html (490 words)

	JOSHUA SLOCUM AND THE FIRST SOLO WORLD NAVIGATION, RECORDED AS SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD 1900
		The American sea captain Josha Slocum, was born at Wilmot Township, Nova Scotia.
		Joshua's second wife and two sons from his first marriage were still on board at the time of the wreck.
		Slocum bought her, rebuilt her with oak which he felled, shaped and treated himself and in 1895 left Boston in her.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/joshua_slocum.htm (498 words)

	Joshua Slocum
		Nova Scotia born, with family roots in New England, Captain Slocum commanded some of the finest tall ships that ever sailed the seas.
		In the fall of 1909, Captain Slocum left on a voyage to South America and was never heard from again.
		Joshua Slocum's 11.2 meter (36ft 9in) gaff rigged cutter SPRAY, built over the frame of an oyster sloop, and had no modern navigation or sailing aids.
	byerly.org /bt_joshua_slocum.htm (249 words)

	Tantor Audio Books : Joshua Slocum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Author and sailor, Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail alone around the world.
		A year later, Slocum decided to sail the boat around the world.
		Captain Slocum continued to sail the Spray and in 1909, at the age of 65, set out once again on a long, single-handed voyage.
	www.tantor.com /AuthorDetail.asp?Author=Slocum_J (192 words)

	Joshua Slocum -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Slocum joined the crew of a merchant vessel at 16 and from that time on spent most of his life at sea.
		U.S. director, producer, and writer Joshua Logan brought to the Broadway stage a number of highly successful plays that quickly became American classics.
		Joshua Reynolds was the most successful portrait painter of his day in England as well as a distinguished member of London's intellectual society.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068219?tocId=9068219 (813 words)

	Cruising World - In and Out of Slocum's Wake
		From the way he described her, Spray appeared to be the ideal cruising boat: beamy, with lots of volume, and carrying shoal draft that permitted both careening on the beach and the exploration of shallow waterways.
		I was fascinated that Slocum had been able to transit the channels of Patagonia in appreciably less than a month—not once, but twice.
		As it was 1995, the centenary of Joshua Slocum’s departure, we decided to follow his route.
	www.cruisingworld.com /article.jsp?ID=201868&typeID=419&catID=0 (2892 words)

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