Did you know that the first solo circumnavigation of the globe was completed in Newport, Rhode Island? Captain Joshua Slocum, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- Fred Lawrence says Joshua Slocum really knew what he was doing when he rebuilt the world-famous Spray at Poverty Point. The Nova Scotia lobsterman got some first-hand experience of the ...

The legacy of a Nova Scotia seaman who became the first person to sail alone around the world is being revitalized by a group of residents on the tiny island where he grew up, more than a century ...

FAIRHAVEN -- Fred Lawrence might not be sailing quite in the wake of Joshua Slocum but he has a lot of his spirit. "I'd love to make that cruise but I don't think it is in my cards," he says. "I have ...

Captain Joshua Slocum’s story comes from Nova Scotia. Just what is it about Nova Scotia?–well, if Montreal ever seceded from Canada, Nova Scotia would almost over night turn into a northern New ...

The yachtsman was Joshua Slocum, an intrepid naturalised American sailing the world from east to west, who dropped anchor in North Harbour on the afternoon of Saturday, October 10, 1896. But if Slocum ...

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 ...

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 ...