Sir Francis Chichester (September 17, 1901 – August 26, 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall. is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... A boat sails by her self-steering system as the skipper tends her sails, while sailing in fine conditions off Key West. ... The Clipper Route followed by ships sailing between England and Australia/New Zealand. ... “Round the world” redirects here. ...

Early Biography

He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England and suffered a miserable childhood as the myopic second son of an unloving Anglican clergyman.^[1] Young Francis was sent to a residential boarding school at the age of 6, and attended Marlborough College as an adolescent during the first World War. At age 18, emigrated to New Zealand, where in ten years he built up a prosperous business in forestry, mining and property development, only to suffer severe losses in the Great Depression. Statistics Population: 34,000 (April 2006 Est. ... Part of the seafront of Torquay, south Devon, at high tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, and Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... A boarding school is a usually fee-charging school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. ... Marlborough College is a British independent boarding school in the county of Wiltshire. ... For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ...

Maritime Biography

After becoming a pilot, he returned to England in 1929 to visit family and take delivery of a de Havilland Gipsy Moth aircraft, which he intended to fly to New Zealand, hoping to break Bert Hinkler’s record solo flight back to Australia en route. Mechanical problems meant the record eluded him; however, he completed the trip in 41 days. Finding that he was unable to carry enough fuel to cross the Tasman Sea directly, he had his Gipsy Moth fitted with floats, and went on to make the first solo flight across the Tasman Sea from East to West and the first aviator to land an aircraft at Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Again, the trip was delayed: after his aircraft was severely damaged, he had to rebuild it himself with the help of islanders. Though the concept of "off-course navigation" is probably as old as navigation, Chichester was the first to utilize it in a methodical manner in an aircraft. The technique allowed him to find tiny islands in the Pacific without any aids, apart from a compass and an estimate of the distance flown. He was awarded the inaugural Amy Johnson Memorial Trophy for this trip. The de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth was a variant of the powered by the de Havilland Gipsy I engine. ... fuck you Map of the Tasman Sea Satellite photo of the Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea is the large body of water between Australia and New Zealand, some 2000 kilometres (1250 miles) across. ... For the island off Solomon Islands, see Ontong Java Atoll Lord Howe Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean 600 km (373 mi) east of the Australian mainland. ... Amy Johnson in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, July 1930. ...

Chichester then decided to circumnavigate the world solo. Borrowing a pair of floats from the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, he made it to Japan; but, on take-off from Katsuura Harbour Wakayama, he collided with an overhead cable, sustaining serious injuries. Formed after World War I, as a mostly part time organisation, manned by New Zealand pilots who had served in the war. ... Template:Wakayama infobox Wakayama (和歌山市; -shi) is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. ...

Chichester enlisted at the outbreak of World War II, serving in the United Kingdom as a navigation expert. He wrote the navigation manual that allowed the pilots of single-handed fighter aircraft to navigate across Europe and back using kneeboard navigation similar to that which he used in the Pacific. At the end of the war, he stayed in the United Kingdom. He purchased 15,000 surplus Air Ministry maps, initially pasting them on boards and making jigsaw puzzles out of them; and later founded a successful map-making company. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... For the Rolling Stones song, see Jigsaw Puzzle A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. ...

In 1958, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. (This may have been a mis-diagnosis; Dr. David Lewis, a London physician who competed against Chichester in the first solo trans-Atlantic race, reviewed the case and called Chichester's abnormality a "lung abscess."^[2]) His wife-to-be Sheila put him on a strict vegetarian diet (now considered to be a macrobiotic diet) and his cancer went into remission. Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ... Macrobiotics (from the Greek macro (large, long) + bio (life)) is a lifetyle that incorporates a dietary regime. ...

In 1960, he entered and won the first single-handed transatlantic yacht race, which he had co-founded, in the yacht Gipsy Moth III. He came second in the second race four years later. A boat sails by her self-steering system as the skipper tends her sails, while sailing in fine conditions off Key West. ...

On August 27, 1966 he sailed his ketch Gipsy Moth IV from Plymouth, England and returned there after 226 days of sailing on 28 May 1967, having circumnavigated the globe, with one stop (in Sydney, Australia). By doing so, he became the first person to achieve a true circumnavigation of the world solo from West to East via the great capes. The voyage was also a race against the clock as Sir Francis wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century, (the first recorded solo circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by Joshua Slocum in 1898 but it took him three years with numerous stops - Slocum also took up the harder challenge of sailing east to west, against the prevailing wind). is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Square Topsl Gaff Ketch Hawaiian Chieftain on San Francisco Bay A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: A main mast, and a mizzen mast abaft the main mast. ... Gipsy Moth IV is a 54ft ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to race single handed around the globe racing against the times set by the clipper ships in the 19th Century. ... Smeatons tower on the Plymouth Hoe Plymouth is a city in the Westcountry of England, situated at the mouths of the rivers Plym and Tamar in the traditional county of Devon. ... is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... “Round the world” redirects here. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The clipper route from England to Australia and New Zealand, by way of the great capes. ... For other uses, see Clipper (disambiguation). ... Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after 14 November 1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. ...

Chichester was knighted for this achievement. For the ceremony, the Queen used a sword that had originally belonged to Sir Francis Drake (the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe). He was also honoured by a 1/9 postage stamp in 1967, which showed him aboard Gipsy Moth IV, even though he was neither royal nor dead when the stamp was issued. This article is about the Elizabethan naval commander. ...

In 1970, Chichester attempted to sail 4,000 miles in 20 days, in Gypsy Moth V; he failed by one day.

Francis Chichester died of lung cancer in Plymouth, Devon on August 26, 1972. This article is about the city of Plymouth in England. ... is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Gipsy Moth IV was preserved alongside the Cutty Sark at Greenwich, until she required complete restoration. During 2005 through 2007, she embarked on an educational round-the-world voyage. In spring 2006, she ran aground on an atoll in the Pacific and after an extensive restoration in Auckland, the ship was repaired and sailing again in July 2006. Cutty sark is 18th century Scots for short chemise or short undergarment[1]. Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname for a fictional character created by Robert Burns, and from there it became part of an idiom - Weel done, Cutty-sark! (Well done, Cutty-sark!) in colloquial English, especially Scottish English. ... This article is about Greenwich in England. ...

After being accompanied into Plymouth by a huge flotilla of boats to welcome them home, the Gipsy Moth IV docked at West Hoe Pier on the 28th May 2007, as it did exactly 40 years ago, to complete its journey round the world. Gipsy Moth IV is a 54ft ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to race single handed around the globe racing against the times set by the clipper ships in the 19th Century. ...

Bibliography

• Astro-Navigation Observer's Books Nos 3-5 with sub-titles of Solo to Sydney (1932),Seaplane Solo and Ride the Wind
• Dead Reckoning Navigation (with co-authors of WJD allan and William Alexander) - Observer's Book ^[3]
• Maps, Charts and Navigation (with the same co-authors of Allen and Alexander - Observer's Book).
• Planisphere of Air Navigation Stars - Observer's Book
• The Spotter's Handbook WWII aviation identification. ^[4]
• Pinpoint the Bomber
• The Star Compasss
• The Sun Compass^[5]
• Alone Across the Atlantic (1961) ^[6]
• Alone Over the Tasman Sea
• The Lonely Sea and the Sky (1964)
• Gipsy Moth Circles the World (1967).

References

The song "single handed sailor" by the popular British band Dire Straits is an ode to Sir Francis Chichester. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

External links

• BBC story from 1967
• "Gipsy Moth IV" in her days at Greenwich
• "Gipsy Moth IV" website
• Gipsy Moth Circles the World at The Open Critic