circumnavigation information

[Paul Pless]

I was searching for the first circumnavigation under power when I found this list.

Notable global maritime circumnavigations

Ferdinand Magellan, 1511–1521 (multiple voyages). In 1511 he visited the Moluccas (longitude about 128°E). He returned to Portugal and set out in 1519 to circumnavigate the globe. He discovered and sailed through the Strait of Magellan and reached the Philippines in 1521, where he was killed at Cebu (longitude about 124°E).

Henry the Black, ?–1521, Magellan's interpreter (multiple voyages). He was captured in Sumatra as a child and taken to the Moluccas where he was sold to Magellan in 1511; he accompanied Magellan on his circumnavigation and ended up on Cebu in the Philippines.
The 18 survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, 1519–1522, in Victoria. After Magellan died in the Philippines in 1521, the circumnavigation was completed under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano. They were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a single expedition.
The survivors of Garcia Jofre de Loaysa's Spanish expedition, 1525–1536. None of Loaysa's seven ships completed the voyage, but Santa Maria de la Victoria reached the Moluccas before being wrecked in a Portuguese attack. Fernando de la Torre and eight survivors return to Spain on a Portuguese ship.

Francis Drake, 1577–1580, in Golden Hind. Discovered the Drake Passage but entered the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan.

Thomas Cavendish, 1586–1588, in Desire.

The survivors of the expeditions of Jacques Mahu and Olivier van Noort, 1598–1601. Of Mahu's five and Van Noort's four ships only two returned.

George Spilberg, 1614–1617.

Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, 1615–1617 in Eendraght. Discovered Cape Horn; the first expedition to enter the Pacific via the Drake Passage.

Jacob l'Hermite and John Hugo Schapenham, 1623–1626.

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Carreri, 1693–1698. The first tourist to circumnavigate the globe, paying his own way on multiple voyages, crossing Mexico on land.

William Dampier (English) 1679–1691; 1703–1707; and 1708–1711. First person to circumnavigate the world twice.

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, 1740–1744, in HMS Centurion.

John Byron, 1764–1766, in HMS Dolphin. First circumnavigation in less than two years.

Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, 1766–1768, in Dolphin and HMS Swallow. Carteret had served on Byron's expedition. Dolphin was the first ship to survive two circumnavigations.

James Cook, 1768–1771, in HMS Endeavour. The first circumnavigation to lose no personnel to scurvy.

Tobias Furneaux, 1772–1774, in HMS Adventure. The first circumnavigation from west to east. (Furneaux was a veteran of Byron's expedition so he was also the first person to circumnavigate in both directions.)

James Cook, 1772–1775 in HMS Resolution.

Robert Gray, 1787–1790, first American circumnavigation.

Adam Johann von Krusenstern, 1803–1806 first Russian circumnavigation.

Robert Fitzroy, 1831–1836, in HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin.

The first Galathea expedition, 1845–1847, first Danish circumnavigation.

Joshua Slocum, 1895–1898, first solo circumnavigation.

Harry Pidgeon, 1921–1925 1932–1937, second solo circumnavigation, first person to circumnavigate solo twice.

USS Triton, 1960 first underwater circumnavigation.

Irving Johnson, 1934–1958, sail training pioneer together with his wife Electa "Exy" Johnson, circumnavigated the world 7 times with amateur crews.

Sir Francis Chichester, 1966–1967, first single-handed circumnavigation with just one port of call.

Robin Knox-Johnston, 1968–1969, first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation.

Chay Blyth, 1971, first westwards single-handed non-stop circumnavigation.

Naomi James, 1978, first woman to perform a single-handed (i.e. solo) circumnavigation.

Marvin Creamer (USA), December 21, 1982 – May 17, 1984, only known person to circumnavigate the globe by boat with no nautical aids, not even a compass or watch [1].

Kay Cottee, 1988, first woman to perform a solo non-stop circumnavigation.

[Paul Pless]

oh yeah, I found the expeditions of James Cook in 1768, Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Carreri, 1693–1698, and Marvin Creamer (USA), December 21, 1982 – May 17, 1984, to be especially interesting.

btw, I still don't find a listing for the circumnavigation under power instead of sail, does anybody know?

[ 10-22-2005, 01:17 PM: Message edited by: Paul Pless ]

[Doug Wood]

...and don't forget Dodge Morgan who was the first American to circumnavigate single-handed, non-stop aboard his sailboat AMERICAN PROMISE. He set a record of 150 days (and change) in 1986.

Can't help you with the powered part though.

[TR]

Paul,

Here is a list of some..

-- Albert Gowen, U.S., Speejacks, Custom, 98',1921-1922
-- Don & Ann Gumpertz, U.S., Westward, Custom, 86', 1970-1976
-- Eilco Kasemier, Holland, Bylgia II, Custom, 39' 1/2", 1983-1984
-- David Scott Cowper, England, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat,
42', 1984-1985
-- David Scott Cowper, England, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat,
42', 1986-1990
-- Bruce & Joan Kessler, U.S., Zopilote, Delta 70, 70', 1990-1993
-- Jim & Susy Sink, U.S., Salvation II, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9", 1990-1995
-- Ghanim Al-Othman, Kuwait, Othmani, Nordhavn 46, 45" 9", 1998-1999
-- Jim Leishman et al, U.S., Nordhavn, Nordhavn 40, 39' 9", 2001-2002



--
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass, Germany, Kanaloa, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9",
1996-2002

Other noteworthy circumnavigations under power:
-- Ben Carlin in Half-Safe, an amphibious Jeep
-- Bryan Peterson of the U.S. in Sunrider, a modified Zodiac 24
-- Jock Wishart in Cable & Wireless Adventurer, a custom 115-foot
trimaran

Originally published in Circumnavigator 2003,

Best, Tad

[Hwyl]

I'd forgotten about "Half Safe" I read the book in high school

http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/halfsafe/jeep60a.jpg

[TimothyB]

James Cook, 1768–1771, in HMS Endeavour. The first circumnavigation to lose no personnel to scurvy.A quickie fact: This was not due to his feeding the crew juice of any kind.. it was due to him keeping many, many barrels of sauerkraut (The old kind.. lacto fermented) on board and enforcing a 1 cup per man per day ration, on pain of lashing. smile.gif

Lacto fermented sauerkraut has lots O' vitamin C in her. And keeps really well too. However the idea of forcing men to eat sauerkraut on British warships didn't sit that well with the admiralty, regardless of Cook's success...

[Donn]

The first airplane circumnavigation was in 1924, and the first hot air balloon did it in 1999.

[Rick Tyler]

Did Robert Beebe do a complete around-trip in Passagemaker? There is certainly no reason he couldn't have. At the very least he went from Southeast Asia westward through the Suez and on the the US.

- Rick

[ 10-24-2005, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Rick Tyler ]