Sir Francis Chichester. First winner of a solo Transatlantic race By The Editors April 24, 2002; Updated: April 24, 2002 Ppl. In 1929 Chichester (1901-1972), an Englishman, learned how to fly ...

Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972) carried Devon's historic tradition of producing explorers and adventurers into the 20th century. Like Drake, Raleigh and Scott before him, Chichester had a sense ...

Forty years to the day after Sir Francis Chichester sailed her into Plymouth at the end of his solo, round-the-world voyage, Gipsy Moth IV has again returned to the Devon port after completing a ...

In black-and-white statistics, it is almost painful to compare the achievement of Ellen MacArthur with that of Sir Francis Chichester, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone. She covered ...

Finding Chichester. The plane was also utilised for non-combat operations. In 1967 it was one of a pair that located the round the world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester at the end of his epic ...

Projects pending include a book and film based on the Chichester exploit. Sir Francis stands to come out decidedly in the black from the perilous 28,500-mile voyage, whose second lap ended, after ...

The yacht in which Sir Francis Chichester made history in 1967 by sailing around the world singlehanded is being sold - for £250,000. The record-breaking Gypsy Moth IV - a 54ft Honduras Mahogany ...

Sir Francis Chichester arrives in Sydney on 12 December 1966 on board the Gipsy Moth IV. Credit: TED GOLDING Chichester, lean and smiling in a blue jersey, had just completed a lone voyage of ...

FEARS have been raised that the legendary yacht used by record-breaking sailor Sir Francis Chichester could be lost to a foreign buyer. Gypsy Moth IV has been put up for sale for £250,000 by its ...

Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972) carried Devon's historic tradition of producing explorers and adventurers into the 20th century. Like Drake, Raleigh and Scott before him, Chichester had a sense ...