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	Francis Chichester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Francis Chichester, aviator and sailor, (born September 17, 1901, Barnstaple, Devon, England â“ died August 26, 1972, Plymouth, Devon) was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his achievement of sailing solo around the world in only nine months and one day.
		Francis Chichester owned a succession of yachts called Gypsy Moth of which Gipsy Moth IV was the last.
		The voyage was also a race against the clock as Sir Francis wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed Clipper Ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Chichester

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	BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Famous People - Sir Francis Chichester
		Chichester was knighted by the Queen in 1967 - and she used the same sword that Queen Elizabeth I used to knight Sir Francis Drake.
		Sir Francis Chichester carried Devon's historic tradition of producing explorers and adventurers into the 20th century.
		BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Famous People - Sir Francis Chichester
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/francis_chichester.shtml

	Sir Francis Chichester
		L'ambition de Sir Francis, traverser en 20 jours, à la moyenne de 200 milles par jour, une vitesse que très peu de yacht de course, menés par un équipage nombreux, parviennent à atteindre.
		Né en 1901, dans le Devonshire, en Angleterre, Francis Chichester, à peine adolescent, émigre en Nouvelle-Zélande.
		Pourtant, Sir Francis commande un nouveau bateau, "Gipsy Moth V".
	www.lavoile.com /chiches.htm

	Details of Portrait of Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972) by James Lawrence Isherwood
		Sir Francis Charles Chichester (1901-1972), airman, sailor, and navigator, was born 17 September 1901.
		Chichester was appointed CBE in 1964 and KBE in 1967, when he reached Sydney half way through his single-handed voyage round the world.
		Chichester became the hero of the British people and achieved world fame when at the age of sixty-five he sailed solo around the world between August 1966 and May 1967, 29,600 miles in 226 days sailing time.
	www.artwarefineart.com /Search/ItemDetails.asp?ItemID=138

	Gipsy Moth IV (Sir Francis Chichester) A National Maritime Heritage Treasure.
		Gipsy Moth IV (Sir Francis Chichester) A National Maritime Heritage Treasure.
		Sir Francis was 64 years old when he set out on his epic voyage from Plymouth on the 27th August 1966.
		Chichester first started making plans for the voyage following his research for his book " Along the Clipper Way " which charts the voyage taken by the great 19th century australian wool clippers who could make the passage followed by Chichester in an average of 123 days.
	www.gipsymoth.org /sir-francis-chichester-intensifying-life.asp

	Ocean Navigator Online - Racing home with Sir Francis
		Sir Francis Chichester was the first to race around the world alone with only one port of call.
		Chichester calculated that his height of eye was 10 feet and that the sextant had an index error of 2 minutes on the arc.
		Chichester ushered in the era of around-the-world racing because he was the first to be commercially sponsored, carrying the "wool mark" on his bows.
	www.oceannavigator.com /site/csrv/content.asp?id=3973

	Sir Francis Chichester - CV
		SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER K.B.E. Born in Shirwell, North Devon on 17th September.
		Francis Chichester sailed around the world in 1966-7 and had crossed the Atlantic several times prior to that, but he remained the driving force behind his successful business of map publishing and navigation specialists.
		In 1929 Francis Chichester made the second solo flight to Australia; in 1931, the first solo flight across the Tasman Sea from East to West in his Gypsy Moth aeroplane fitted with floats.
	www.gileschichestermep.org.uk /francis-chichester_cv.htm

	30th Anniversary
		Francis Chichester and his 53ft (16 metre) ketch Gipsy Moth IV returned to a half-million-strong reception at Plymouth, England, having taken 226 days to circumnavigate the globe alone.
		Queen Elizabeth II was using the same sword, and stood close to the same spot, that her predecessor Queen Elizabeth I had used to knight Sir Francis Drake.
		Chichester's second interest in making the voyage was the chance to set the fastest circumnavigation in a small boat: to follow the route of the great clipper ships to Australia and back and try to equal their sailing time of a hundred days between ports.
	www.greenwichpast.com /vip/sailors/chichester30.htm

	Telegraph Sport Chichester took a break and he needed one
		Sir Francis and MacArthur were similarly equipped for cooking with an ancient primus stove against a modern single-flame gas burner, but the modern freeze-dried foods had to last their chef only 10 weeks compared with the nine months endured by the earlier adventurer.
		Sir Francis had a short-range electronic radio direction finder which could take bearings from any transmission stations within 60 miles, but was completely useless in the open ocean.
		Sir Francis left Plymouth on Aug 27, 1966, took 107 days (give or take a couple of hours) just to reach Sydney, had a six-week rest and refit and then sailed back to Plymouth after another 119 days, returning on May 28, 1967 after covering 29,630 miles.
	sport.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2005/02/09/sofent00.xml

	Yachting Monthly Gipsy Moth IV - the man and his boat
		To read a full history of Sir Francis Chichester, from early adventures in biplanes in the 1920s and 1930s, visit Giles Chichester’s CV of his father.
		Chichester had been advised to have one lung removed and was given six months to live but his wife Sheila defied the consultants, refused to let them operate and gradually nursed him back to health.
		Following the circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV Chichester was undeterred by the diagnosis of a cancer tumour near the base of his spine in 1972 and entered the fourth Transatlantic race that year, in Gipsy Moth V.
	www.yachtingmonthly.com /ym/gipsymoth/theman.html

	Yacht
		Tak se zrodil pozdìji slavný závod OSTAR, jeho prvním vítìzem se stal Francis Chichester.
		Chichester je velice levnì odkoupil a prodával jako skládanky.
		Chichester, který mìl na starosti piloty, byl pøekvapen jejich potíemi pøi pøistávání a rozhodl se pøijít této profesi na kloub.
	www.yacht-magazine.cz /yacht2/y0011/chichester.php

	Sir Francis Drake - AskTheBrain.com
		Sir Francis Chichester was knighted close to this spot by Queen Elizabeth II using the same sword that Queen Elizabeth I used to knight Sir Francis Drake.
		Sir Francis Drake, the 16th-century English explorer who had sailed around the world, was crossing the Thames River when a violent storm threatened to capsize his boat.
		Francis Drake was knighted in Deptford by Elizabeth 1 after his round the world voyage and Sir Walter Raleigh, the scourge of the Spanish Navy, set sail from here in 1589.
	www.askthebrain.com /drake_franci_sir-.html

	BBC NEWS UK England Hampshire Prince to relaunch Gypsy Moth IV
		Sir Francis Chichester returned to Plymouth Sound on 7 July 1967, nine months and one day after leaving the historic naval city to sail single-handed round the world.
		The boat used by Sir Francis Chichester for the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe is being relaunched by Prince Philip.
		The adventurer was later dubbed by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4731301.stm

	MMBC Schoolnet: Adventure -Chichester
		Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, using the same sword that had been used to Knight Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Chichester is well known for his adventures as a deep sea yachtsman.
		Chichester named his sailing vessels after the Gypsy Moth, a small aircraft he flew solo to Australia in 1929.
		In 1970, sailing in the Gypsy Moth V, Chichester attempted to sail 4,000 miles in 20 days, falling short of his goal by one day.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /maritime_museum/adventure/chichester.html

	Gipsy Moth Circles the World
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		Gipsy Moth IV (Sir Francis Chichester) A National Maritime Heritage...
		Francis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed.
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	The Chichester Challenge - Gipsy Moth Flight London to Sydney
		Francis Chichester captured the public imagination with an outstanding sequence of yachting achievements in a series of oats called Gipsy Moth.
		For this remarkable exploit he was knighted in 1967 using the sword Elizabeth I had given to Sir Francis Drake to honour the first English Circumnavigation nearly 400 years earlier.
		Perhaps Chichester will always be remebered as a great yachtsman, nut his boats were actually named after an aeroplane - becuase flying was his first love, and his first real claim to fame.
	www.chichesterchallenge.com /challenge/chichester.php

	AIAON BBC ON THIS DAY 28 1967: Sir Francis Chichester sails home
		Sir Francis Chichester has arrived in Plymouth tonight in his yacht, Gypsy Moth IV, after completing his epic single-handed voyage around the world.
		At the breakwater, Sir Francis was joined by his wife, Lady Chichester, and son Giles who brought two bottles of champagne on board.
		Sir Francis is the first man to race around the world solo with only one port of call, Sydney.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_2495000/2495799.stm

	Yachting Monthly Gipsy Moth IV - supporters add their views
		Sir Julian Oswald, Admiral of the Fleet, and chairman of The Maritime Trust, said: ‘ Gipsy Moth IV and Sir Francis Chichester are sailing legends at the very centre of Britain’s remarkable heritage of sail.
		Sir Francis Chichester’s son, Giles, the European Member of Parliament for the South-West, has agreed to be a patron for the project, and is pleased about plans to ‘rescue and refit’ Gipsy Moth IV.
		Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (right), whose own non-stop solo circumnavigation in his 32ft ketch Suhaili in 1969 was inspired by Gipsy Moth IV ’s one-stop voyage is ‘delighted’ to be a patron of our project.
	www.ybw.com /ym/gipsymoth/support.html

	PPL Photo Agency - The Specialist Media Source
		Sir Francis Chichester and gipsy Moth IV returning to Plymouth at the end of their solo navigation around the world.
		Sir Francis Chichester on Gipsy Moth V during his solo round the world voyage.
		To mark the occasion, PPL has been privileged to pull together an archive of the best pictures of Sir Francis Chichester's famous voyages from the family albums held by his son Giles Chichester.
	www.sailingsource.com /ppl/glychis.html

	Greenwich England: Gipsy Moth IV
		Sir Francis Chichester was knighted close to this spot by Queen Elizabeth II using the same sword that Queen Elizabeth I used to knight Sir Francis Drake.
		In the shadow of the Cutty Sark is this small sailing ketch in which Sir Francis Chichester made the World's first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe (1966-7).
		Gipsy Moth IV stands close to Cutty Sark in Greenwich, one of the clipper ships that Sir Francis Chichester was emulating.
	www.greenwichengland.com /tourism/gipsymoth.htm

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		Sir Francis Bond Head's assessment that the province was to a large extent kept in a state of excitement by "strong republican principles [that had] leaked into the country from the United States...
		Lieutenant Governor, Sir Francis Bond Head, to reconsider the sale of Lot 15 comprising 228 acres leased by William from 1806 until it was sold to Charles Fothergill in 1834.
		On the other hand, and chiefly at the urging of a new Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Francis Bond-Head, civilization was seen as a contamination of the "noble savage" and removal from civilization was...
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	INTERNATIONAL PAINT HELP RESTORE GIPSY MOTH IV
		The 2005-2007 circumnavigation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sir Francis Chichester's 29,630-mile solo passage and International Paint are pleased to be part of this exciting project - a company with its own rich history.
		- Francis Chichester started his journey from Plymouth on 23 August 1966 and returned nine months and one day later on the 28 May 1967.
		- After a deserved rest Chichester sailed the Gipsy Moth IV to Greenwich where he was jubilantly knighted by the Queen but sadly the Gipsy Moth IV was never sailed again and took up a concrete dry dock in Greenwich.
	www.bluemoment.com /pressreleases/internationalpaintsfeb05.html

	chichester - Auctions
		KT FDC Sir Francis Chichester 1967 Plymouth Devon - $1.76
		SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER VOYAGE OF THE CENTURY P/B - $3.53
		Francis Chichester Lonely Sea and the Sky 1964 HB DW - $5.32
	www.cereva.com /s/chichester/index.html

	Chichester Map Road Street Whyke - Typhoon.co.uk
		Chichester Chambers Location Map The location of Chambers in central Chichester is shown in the context of one way and pedestrianised streets, car parks, courts and significant buildings.
		The plan of Chichester is also based The map has been backedfirst large scale map of Sussex, andplans and views of Chichester and Lewes.
		Chichester Shop Map The nearest car park is indicated if you are drivingleave the station.
	www.typhoon.co.uk /directory/52781_chichester.html

	Francis Chichester's boat to sail again ?
		Sir Francis Chichester's famous boat, Gipsy Moth IV, could put to sea again for a second voyage around the world if an ambitious proposal by the UK's leading cruising magazine comes off.
		That year is not only the 40th anniversary of Chichester's circumnavigation, but also the 100th year of Yachting Monthly's publication.
		Gipsy Moth IV is currently rotting away through lack of funds in a dry dock in Greenwich, and a detailed survey commissioned by Yachting Monthly has revealed that she needs urgent work, which could cost at least £100,000.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20030809120533ymnews.html

	Isle of Wight Today
		Giles Chichester, left, son of Sir Francis, with David Green, of the UKSA.
		Yachting Monthly magazine has been behind a campaign to get the boat restored and back on the water and the boat's new future was officially launched by Sir Francis Chichester's son, Giles, an MEP for south-west England, last week.
		Centrepiece will be Sir Francis Chichester's round-the-world yacht Gipsy Moth IV, which will take pride of place as an on-the-water exhibit.
	www.iwcp.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1252&ArticleID=952455

	CCSU - The Navigators' Memorial, Westminster Abbey
		a Navigators' Memorial was unveiled and dedicated in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey, to the memory of Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook and Sir Francis Chichester.
	www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu4113.htm

	printable.cgi?article=63828.html
		In fact, when the Queen knighted Chichester and made him a “Sir,” she used Sir Francis Drake’s personal sword to dub him on the shoulder during the ceremony.
		Everyone has to have a hero, and one of mine is Sir Francis Chichester, world-renowned for his exploits as a pioneer solo round-the-world sailor — a sort of modern-day Sir Francis Drake.
		Sir Francis Chichester’s accomplishments, partly immortalized in the stamp at right, are heroic.
	www.calgarysun.com /cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=63828.html

	Sir Francis Chichester's voyage recalled
		The son of Sir Francis Chichester, Giles, will be giving a talk at Schroders London Boat Show on 8 January about his father's seminal circumnavigation to raise money for Yachting Monthly's Gipsy Moth IV project.
		The talk, 'My father's voyage around the world', will describe Sir Francis' 226-day, 29,630-mile voyage in 1966-67, when he made just one stop in Sydney.
		But at least a further £100,000 is required for the job.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20050005115123ymnews.html

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