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 ...

GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD by Sir Francis Chichester. 269 pages. Coward-McCann. $6.95. While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the ...

The boat used by Sir Francis Chichester on his record-breaking journey around the globe has set off again from Plymouth where it docked 38 years ago. Gipsy Moth IV has had a £300,000 makeover in ...

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 ...