"Lady"" was in 2009 leased to ""Around and Around"" for 25 years so the charity could maintain and use her for training. In 2011 the charity announced that, after a refit, ""Lively Lady"" would undertake another circumnavigation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rose's achievement. Alec Rose Sir Alec Rose (13 July 1908 – 11 January 1991) was a nursery owner and fruit merchant in England who after serving in the Royal Navy during World War II developed a passion for amateur single-handed sailing. He took part in the second single-handed Atlantic race in 1964 and circumnavigated the globe single-handedly"
"restoration in Auckland was required to repair the yacht, which was successfully refloated in June 2006. After being accompanied into Plymouth by a flotilla of boats, ""Gipsy Moth IV"" docked at West Hoe Pier on 28 May 2007, as she had done exactly 40 years earlier, to complete her journey round the world. The yacht's restoration and the second circumnavigation are described in Paul Gelder's 2007 book, ""Gipsy Moth IV: A Legend Sails Again"". The English rock group Dire Straits pay tribute to the achievements of Sir Francis in their album track entitled ""Single Handed Sailor"", which is track No.8"
"On 28 May 1967 Sir Francis Chichester returned to Plymouth after the first single handed Clipper Route circumnavigation of the world and was greeted by an estimated crowd of a million spectators on the Hoe and every vantage point from Rame Head to Wembury. In 1988, to mark the 400th anniversary of defeat of the Spanish Armada the majority of the city centre was pedestrianised, closed to vehicular traffic and the city centre was landscaped and a new shopping centre named the Armada Centre marked the transition to the tourist economy as the employment at the Dockyards began to fall"
"city to new developments such as Paulsgrove and Leigh Park. On 4 July 1968, an estimated 250,000 people witnessed the return of Alec Rose, a greengrocer in Osborne Road, after he completed his single-handed circumnavigation in ""Lively Lady""; he was immediately knighted and made a Freeman of the city. 400 motor-boats, yachts, catamarans and canoes welcomed him into harbour. The University of Portsmouth gained university status in 1992 In 2003 erection was started of a 552 feet high Spinnaker Tower sited at Portsmouth Harbour, and celebrating the city's maritime tradition. Completed in 2005, the tower has twin concrete legs meeting"
"was closely followed by the British and international press and Rose's landfall at 12.33pm in Southsea, Portsmouth on 4 July 1968, 354 days later, was met by cheering crowds of hundreds of thousands. It was 10 days before his 60th birthday. On 10 July 1968, he was made a Knight Bachelor. And he was made a Freeman of the City of Portsmouth in the same year, was guest of honour at the Anglo-American Sporting Club gala evening at the London Hilton, and fêted with ""Lively Lady"" outside the Daily Mirror Building at Holborn Circus. He opened the Bamboo House Chinese"
"of Brittany. In 1764, he retired from service, but still maintained an interest in various subjects, including desalinization, architecture, navigation, and landing methods for the ""Isles Lucayes"" (the Bahamas). It is said he made himself read at least six hours a day, especially books on travel and history. He died in Brest. Amédée-François Frézier Amédée-François Frézier (1682 – October 26, 1773) was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of ""Fragaria chiloensis"", the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing this New World fruit to the Old."
"timber industry, as well as numerous garden shrubs and herbs such as the Flowering currant, Salal, Lupin, Penstemon and California poppy. His success was well beyond expectations; in one of his letters to Hooker, he wrote ""you will begin to think I manufacture pines at my pleasure"". Altogether he introduced about 240 species of plants to Britain. He first briefly visited Hawaii in 1830 on his way to the Pacific Northwest. He returned again in December 1833 intending to spend three months of winter there. He was only the second European to reach the summit of the Mauna Loa volcano."
"John Ridgway (sailor) John Ridgway, MBE, (born 1938), is a British yachtsman and rower. Ridgway was educated at the Pangbourne Nautical College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 1966, whilst a Captain in the Parachute Regiment, Ridgway, together with Chay Blyth, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20 ft open dory called English Rose III. They successfully completed this in 92 days. He entered the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968, in an attempt to become the first person to sail single-handed non-stop around the world, but retired from the race in Recife, Brazil. In 1969 he"
"stamens. The fruit is a bluish berry. When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the ""Golden Hind"" at the outset, the only ship that successfully rounded Cape Horn with him was the ""Elizabeth"", captained by John Wynter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back. Presumably he had sickness on board, for he sent a boat ashore to search out medicinal herbs. He returned in 1579 with a supply of ""Drimys"" bark, and for centuries before vitamin C was isolated, ""Winter's Bark"" was esteemed as a preventive and remedy"
"Cavendish reached the coast of Africa and returned to England by way of the Cape of Good Hope, stopping at the island of Saint Helena for supplies. On 9 September 1588 the ""Desire"" sailed into the harbor at Plymouth, England. Later she paraded up the River Thames through London, displaying her new sails of blue damask. Cavendish's first voyage was a huge success both financially and otherwise; Cavendish was not yet 28 at his return. The circumnavigation of the globe had been completed in two years and 49 days, nine months faster than Drake, although, like Drake, Cavendish returned with"
"balls as there was no sports shop or golf course. Between his telegraphist salary and the profits he made from the Waterville Supply Company (helped by his status of Mess President which meant that he didn't have to pay for his own meals) he made £1,000 in 18 months. In May 1922, Moores was back in England as the cable company reposted him again to Liverpool, where he would remain for the rest of his life. John, Colin Askham and Bill Hughes were friends who had worked together as Post Office messenger boys in Manchester. It was whilst looking for"
"Sailor"", a dramatic, stormy scene from Sir Alec Rose's famous solo circumnavigation. Alec Rose finished his journey in Portsmouth on 4 July 1968; fine art prints, cards and postcards were on sale widely, the same picture was used as the cover for Rose's book of his epic voyage: ""My Lively Lady"". This was commercially his most successful and famous painting. The success of ""The Lone Sailor"" precipitated more commissions for prints including ""Harbour Twilight"" (1969), an atmospheric view from a Gosport boatyard across Portsmouth Harbour, and ""The Revenue Cutter"" (1970), a night scene of a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter. Throughout"
"a copy of Drake's will was brought to Hartzell's mail fraud trial and he was convicted and imprisoned. Drake's Drum has become an icon of English folklore with its variation of the classic king in the mountain story. Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With"
"made a very short voyage of five weeks and landed at Exmouth on 23 July. Their freight realised a great profit, the sassafras alone selling for £336 a ton. A notable account of the voyage, written by John Brereton, one of the gentlemen adventurers, was published in 1602, and this helped in popularising subsequent voyages of exploration and colonisation of the northeast seaboard of North America. A second account by Gabriel Archer was not published until over 20 years later. Although the mission failed to establish a colony, the attempt is commemorated by the New World Tapestry and Gilbert is"
"circumnavigation of the world. In March 1967, a 28-year-old British merchant marine officer, Robin Knox-Johnston, realised that a non-stop solo circumnavigation was ""about all there's left to do now"". Knox-Johnston had a wooden ketch, ""Suhaili"", which he and some friends had built in India to the William Atkin ""Eric"" design; two of the friends had then sailed the boat to South Africa, and in 1966 Knox-Johnston had single-handedly sailed her the remaining to London. Knox-Johnston was determined that the first person to make a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation should be British, and he decided that he would attempt to achieve this"
"author from a picture by Clint. James Morison (physician) James Morison (1770 – 3 May, 1840) was a British quack-physician who sold Hygeian Vegetable Universal Medicine, a would-be cure-all. Morison was born at Bognie, Aberdeenshire, in 1770, the youngest son of Alexander Morison. After studying at Aberdeen University and Hanau in Germany, he established himself at Riga as a merchant, and subsequently in the West Indies, where he acquired property. Ill-health obliged him to return to Europe, and about 1814 he settled at Bordeaux. After ""thirty-five years' inexpressible suffering"", and experimenting with every imaginable course of medical treatment, he accomplished"
"prize for the fastest circumnavigation, and with the help of a wildly optimistic table of probable performances, he even predicted that he would be first to finishdespite a planned departure on 1 October. Given the design of the race, there was no organised start; the competitors set off whenever they were ready, over a period of several months. On 1 June 1968, the first allowable day, John Ridgway sailed from Inishmore, Ireland, in his weekend cruiser ""English Rose IV"". Just a week later, on 8 June, Chay Blyth followed suitdespite having absolutely no sailing experience. On the day he set"
"55. Shane Acton Shane John Acton (17 September 1946 – 25 February 2002) was an English sailor, known for circumnavigating the globe in an boat. He first set sail from Britain in 1972 at the age of 25. Acton was born and raised in Cambridge, England. Without any sailing experience, he departed in a used 18' 4"" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400. The boat was a Caprice, a Robert Tucker design originally named ""Super Shrimp"" but referred to by Shane simply as ""Shrimpy"". Later Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by"
"had to postpone the event until the following year. The voyage began on 16 July 1967. While he was away Rose's wife Dorothy ran their fruit and vegetable stall, displaying a map charting his progress. On 17 December, after 155 days and 14,500 miles, he arrived in Melbourne where he met his son who lived there. Among the people who came to watch Rose's arrival was Prime Minister Harold Holt, who disappeared later the same day after going for a swim. Rose stopped once more, an unplanned call into Bluff Harbour, New Zealand to repair a damaged mast. The voyage"
"−5 to +40 degrees Celsius and will only take one change of clothes. In 1972 England's Whitbread company and the British Royal Naval Sailing Association agreed to sponsor a globe-circling regatta, which would be called the 'Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race'. 17 yachts and 167 crew started the first race of , which began from Portsmouth, United Kingdom on 8 September 1973. Approximately 3000 spectator boats set out to witness the historic start. The first race was won by Mexican amateur Ramon Carlin in a Swan 65 yacht, ""Sayula II"" The original course was designed to follow the route"
"Ellen MacArthur Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight. MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international renown. Francis Joyon, the Frenchman who had held the record before MacArthur, was able to recover the record again in early 2008. Following her retirement from professional sailing on 2 September 2010, MacArthur announced the launch of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation,"
"Henderson Luelling Henderson William Luelling (April 23, 1809 – December 28, 1878) was an early Oakland, CA settler, horticulturist, Quaker and abolitionist. He introduced varietal fruits to the Pacific coast, first to Oregon and later to California, and gave the Fruitvale district its name. In his later years, he led a Utopian community from California to Honduras, only to encounter overwhelming adversity, which sent him back to California. Luelling and his brother John went into the nursery business together in Henry County, Indiana in 1835. Soon after, Henderson became interested in Oregon, upon reading the journals of Lewis and Clark."
"return to port twice. The Standishes and most of the ""Speedwell"" passengers crowded into the ""Mayflower"", and the ""Speedwell"" went on to London to be resold, now with only a few passengers. (She subsequently made numerous successful journeys as a cargo vessel for her new owners, but never sailed to the New World.) The ""Mayflower"" passengers, meanwhile, sold some valuable supplies such as butter to pay the mounting port fees, and finally departed Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620, bound for the northern part of the Virginia Colony. The passage of the ""Mayflower"" across the North Atlantic lasted more than"
"13 hours 42 min, earning himself a place in yachting history. Bruce Dalling Bruce Dalling (16 August 1938 – 7 July 2008) was a Springbok South African yachtsman, also advocate and farmer, best known for taking second place on elapsed time and first on corrected time for the monohull award in the 1968 Observer Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. Dalling was born in Johannesburg to Kathleen and William Dalling, a mining captain. He matriculated at St. John's College in Johannesburg, after which he went to sea and then joined the Hong Kong Police for two years. While living in Hong Kong, he"
"for England. As with the Pilgrims, her sailors had been decimated by illness, with Jones having lost his boatswain, his gunner, three quartermasters, the cook, and more than a dozen sailors. The ""Mayflower"" made excellent time on her return voyage back to England. The westerly winds that had buffeted the ship coming out, pushed her along going home and she arrived at her home port in Rotherhithe on the Thames on 5 May 1621 – less than half the time it had taken her to sail to America. Among the 102 passengers were six Essex residents from the Great Burstead"
"whale carcasses and helping to pack it into barrels. Food was scarce and ""Fortune""s thirty crew members supplemented their diet with bird's eggs, scurvy grass and where possible, reindeer. The ship returned to England on 20 July 1754. The whaling crew were paid off and replaced with twelve sailors for a winter voyage to the Mediterranean. As an apprentice, Phillip remained aboard as ""Fortune"" undertook an outward trading voyage to Barcelona and Livorno carrying salt and raisins, returning via Rotterdam with a cargo of grains and citrus. The ship returned to England in April 1755 and sailed immediately for Svalbard"
"1966, Chichester set out to sail around the world by the clipper route, starting and finishing in England with a stop in Sydney, in an attempt to beat the speed records of the clipper ships in a small boat. His voyage was a great success, as he set an impressive round-the-world time of nine months and one daywith 226 days of sailing timeand, soon after his return to England on 28 May 1967, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Even before his return, however, a number of other sailors had turned their attention to the next logical challengea ""non-stop"" single-handed"
"on the shores of Ireland and Dom's ""farewell"" video was recovered. Dom Mee Dom Mee is a British adventurer who attempted in August/September 2005 to cross the North Atlantic Ocean in a 14' (4.26 m) kite-propelled boat, dubbed the Little Murka. His journey began from St. John's, Canada, on August 19, 2005. The main kite was 107.6 sq. ft. (10 m².) in area, which gave the boat speeds of up to thirteen knots. The boat was carrying 60 days' worth of provisions. The total length of the journey was to be 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km): he planned to arrive"
"himself on the open sea. He then reads about the sad fate of the ""Halsewell"", lost in a shipwreck on rocks off the Isle of Purbeck in which 160 people died. Captain Pierce stayed to comfort his daughters, even though he could have saved himself. Finally, he recounts the exciting story of the ""Grosvenor"", an English-bound Mercantile ship that ran aground on 4 August 1782 in South Africa. Of the 125 who made it to shore, only 13 survived the trip back to civilization. After meditating on these stories he comes to a startling realization about ""The Long Voyage"", looking"
"Tinkerbelle Tinkerbelle is a sailboat in which 47-year-old newspaperman Robert Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland ""Plain Dealer"", single-handedly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1965. At the time, it was the shortest but not the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic nonstop (till today the smallest is Lindemann's folding kayak). He left Falmouth, Massachusetts on June 1 and arrived in Falmouth, Cornwall, England 78 days later, greeted by an armada of small boats and a huge crowd. Mayor Samuel A. Hooper of Falmouth officially welcomed him at the town's Custom House Quay. Robert Manry's wife Virginia and his children,"
"of a heart attack on 15 July 2002 at his family home in the village of Framfield in Sussex. Charles R. Burton Charles Robert Burton (13 December 1942 – 15 July 2002) was an English explorer, best known for his part in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole. Serving as cook, radio operator, and mechanic, he was the only member of the team to accompany the expedition's leader, Ranulph Fiennes, on the entire route. Burton was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He attended Millfield school in Somerset, where he excelled more"
"him as having a PhD as well. However, no mention is made as to where and when he actually earned or was awarded these academic titles. Norman W. Walker Norman Wardhaugh Walker (4 January 1886, Italy – 6 June 1985, Cottonwood, Arizona ) was a British businessman and pioneer in the field of vegetable juicing and nutritional health. He advocated the drinking of fresh raw vegetable and fruit juices, both to regain and to maintain one's health. Based on his design, the Norwalk Hydraulic Press Juicer was developed. This juicer continues to be produced and sold today. Walker wrote several"
"his family in the affluent suburb of Oxton in 1911. He shortly thereafter retired, following a severe stroke, to his home at Broughton Grange, Lincolnshire, where he died in 1915. John Holt (businessman) John Holt (31 October 1841 – 22 June 1915) was an English merchant, who founded a shipping line operating between Liverpool and West Africa, and a number of businesses in Nigeria, which are now incorporated in John Holt plc. Holt was born in Garthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1841. In 1862, with £27 in his pocket, he sailed from Liverpool to take up an appointment as a shop assistant"