In which vessel did Joshua Slocum circumnavigate the Earth single handed?
Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey; "Sailing Alone Around the World", which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the "Spray". Joshua Slocum was born on February 20, 1844 in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (officially recorded as Wilmot Station), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay
Frank Cowper documented in "Sailing Tours", mostly single-handed, in the yawl "Lady Harvey", a Dover fishing lugger built in 1867. In his 1921 book "Single-Handed Cruising", Francis B. Cooke claimed that no amateur yachtsman had ever single-handed a larger vessel. Cowper was a contemporary of the first single-handed sailor to circumnavigate the globe, the American Joshua Slocum, but where Slocum braved the oceans, the British coastal waters in which Cowper sailed are famous for their large tidal range and rife with hazardous rocks and currents. Cowper sold "Lady Harvey" in 1895, then building a ketch of his own design, "Undine II", which