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Vito Dumas
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
Jacob Le Maire male, deceased
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 - December 22 1616) was a Dutch mariner, born in Antwerp, who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. He discovered the...
Willem Schouten
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...
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David Porter male, deceased
David Porter was an officer in the United States Navy and later the commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy. Born at Boston, Massachusetts, Porter...
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William Smith was the English captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago near Antarctica. In 1819, while sailing cargo on...
Naomi James
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
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
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.
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
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...