6/26/2023 0 Comments Captain joshua slocumSlocum bought a new ship, the Aquidneck, which he later claimed was “nearest to perfection of beauty,” and took it to South America. In early 1884 Northern Light needed repairs that economic conditions could not justify and so became a coal barge. 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. He gathered a crew to fish off Siberia his wife Virginia, pregnant with twins, and their three children came with him. In 1875 he built a ship in the Philippines and was paid with a small ship, the first he owned. About 1869 he became an American citizen. In 1860, shortly after his mother died, he went to sea.Ī year later Slocum was in the Pacific, where he would spend most of the next 23 years, developing into an accomplished sailor and navigator. Joshua was a cook on a local fishing boat for a while. Although his father worked on land, the males on both sides of his family had traditionally been seamen. When he was eight his family moved to the extreme western tip of Nova Scotia his formal education ended two years later. Joshua Slocum’s ancestors were loyalists from Massachusetts. on or shortly after 14 Nov. 1909 in the Atlantic Ocean. 1886 his first cousin Henrietta Miller Elliot in Boston they had no children d. 1884) in Sydney (Australia), and they had seven children m. 1844 in Mount Hanly, N.S., son of John Slocum and Sarah Jane Southern m.
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