Devon adventurer Sir Francis Chichester was knighted for his sailing and flying exploits. Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972) carried Devon's historic tradition of producing explorers and ...

In 1929 Chichester (1901-1972), an Englishman, learned how to fly and set off in a Gipsy Moth biplane for Sydney, Australia, becoming the second man to fly solo from England to Australia ...

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 ...

The yacht in which Sir Francis Chichester made history in 1967 by sailing around the world singlehanded is being sold - for £250,000.

A flack newly hired by his business-minded wife, Lady Chichester, admitted: “My job is to keep the name of Sir Francis Chichester alive and to place franchises for carefully selected goods.

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 ...

While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester’s 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of ...

It was Sir Francis Chichester who said, “Wild horses wouldn’t drag me back to the sinister Southern Ocean, where the height of the waves is measured n.

The new stone lies in the Abbey’s south cloister, close to a memorial to pioneering sailors Captain James Cook, Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Francis Drake.

Dignitaries from across region enjoy North Devon Council civic service The service raised funds for The Sir Francis Chichester Trust and Outward Bound ...