Mike Golding

Mike Golding

male, 49 years old
Mike Golding (born 27 August 1960) is an English yachtsman. He is one of the few yachtsmen to have raced round the world non-stop in both...
Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

male, deceased (1997)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the...
Dee Caffari

Dee Caffari

female
Denise "Dee" Caffari MBE is a British sailor, and is the first woman to have sailed single-handedly non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; west...
Alex Thomson

Alex Thomson

male, 35 years old
Alex Thomson is a British yachter. Alex Thomson was helped early in his sailing career by Sir Keith Mills, the British businessman who ran London's...

William Brown

female
William Brown was reputed to be a Black woman who joined the Royal Navy disguised as a man. The story goes that she was born in Edinburgh, joined...

Mark Anthony

male, deceased (1867)
Mark Anthony of Carrigcastle (b.1786 - d. 1st June 1867), commander R.N. As a 15 year old, he boarded the Milford packet in Checkpoint in 1801 and,...
Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum

male, deceased (1909)
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - on or shortly after 14 November, 1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the...
Kenichi Horie

Kenichi Horie

male
Kenichi Horie is a Japanese solo yachtsman. In 1962 he crossed the Pacific Ocean in 94 days aboard a 19 foot sailboat (called the Mermaid) from...

John Young

male, deceased (1781)
John Young (ca. 1740-1781) was a captain in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, commander of the "Saratoga" which was lost...
Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas

male, deceased (343)
Saint Nicholas (" Agios Nikolaos", "victory of the people") is the common name for Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (in modern day Antalya province,...