![]() ![]() Hence, in February of 1891, the New Bedford Republican Standard noted, “Capt. John Drew, a marine writer who may have inspired Slocum to publish the stories of his own voyages.ĭuring the next winter, in Boston and out of work, Slocum again ran into Eben Pierce who suggested Slocum might find work in a Fairhaven shipyard. Pierce was an uncle of Slocum’s friend Capt. Eben Pierce, a retired seaman who resided at Poverty Point. It was at this time that Slocum met Capt. Following the publication of the book, Slocum toured with the Liberdade, visiting Harris’ boat stage near the foot of Washington Street in Fairhaven in August of 1890. ![]() The book told of the shipwreck of Slocum’s ship Aquidneck and his building of the 35-foot Liberdade, in which he and his family sailed from Brazil back to America. Joshua Slocum, born in Nova Scotia in 1844, was a “celebrated sailor and adventurer” whose fame came first following the publication of a book Voyage of the Liberdade. For close to that spot, Slocum had resurrected the old vessel which ultimately became the first craft to be sailed around the world single-handedly. “I could bring her no nearer home,” the captain wrote. ![]() There he tied up to a cedar post that had held the Spray when Slocum had first launched her several years earlier. ![]() Joshua Slocum completed his three-year solo circumnavigation of the world in his small sloop Spray, he sailed the 36-foot craft up the Acushnet River to a place on the shore of the “Poverty Point” neighborhood of Fairhaven. ![]()
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