| Vito Dumas
male, deceased
Vito Dumas (September 26, 1900 - March 28, 1965) was an Argentine single-handed sailor. In 1942, while the world was in the depths of World War II,... |
| Jacob Le Maire
male, deceased
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 - December 22 1616) was a Dutch mariner, born in Antwerp, who circumnavigated |
| Willem Schouten
male, deceased
Willem Cornelisz Schouten (1567?-1625) was a Dutch navigator. In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jacob le Maire sailed from Texel in the... |
| David Porter
male, deceased
David Porter was an officer in the United States Navy and later the commander-in-ch |
| William Smith
male
William Smith was the English captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago near Antarctica. In 1819, while sailing cargo on... |
| Naomi James
female
Dame Naomi James DBE, (b. 2 March 1949) was the first woman to sail single-handed (ie. solo) around the world via Cape Horn. She finished her... |
| Stan Hugill
male, deceased
Stan (Stanley James) Hugill (November 19, 1906 - May 13, 1992) was a folk music performer and sea music historian, known as the "Last Working... |
| Nathaniel Palmer
male, deceased
Nathaniel Brown Palmer (1799 - 1877) was a seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut.... |
| Richard Henry Dana Jr.
male, deceased
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 - January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician, and author of the book "Two Years Before the... |
| Otto von Kotzebue
male, deceased
Otto von Kotzebue (Russian Отто Евстафьевич Коцебу, "Otto Evstaf'evič Kocebu", December 30, 1787 - February 15, 1846), was a Baltic German navigato... |










