![]() ![]() By that time the age of sail was almost over, as was Slocum’s career as a merchant captain on sailing vessels. Hettie never again accompanied him to sea. From its wreckage, however, Slocum built a thirty-five-foot “canoe” and sailed the Liberdade 5,500 miles to Washington, D.C. On this inauspicious voyage, Captain Slocum killed a man in putting down a mutiny, and the uninsured ship was wrecked in Brazil and was a total loss. About two years later he married his cousin Henrietta (“Hettie”) Elliott, and for their wedding trip the couple went to sea on the Aquidneck, which he owned. ![]() In 1871 he married Virginia Walker, who, along with their children, sailed with him until she died in 1884. At about sixteen he left home to work as a deepwater sailor and by 1869 commanded his first vessel. Joshua Slocum, the first singlehanded circumnavigator and author of the classic Sailing Alone Around the World (1900), was born in Nova Scotia. ![]()
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