<Li> Fernando Villaamil; 1892--1894; aboard Nautilus; first training ship circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Joshua Slocum; 1895--1898; first single - handed circumnavigation . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The Great White Fleet; 1907--1909; first fleet to circumnavigate the world . </Li> <Li> Harry Pidgeon; 1921--1925; second single - handed circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, and the rest of the Special Service Squadron; 1923--24; in the Empire Cruise, a tour of the British Empire after World War I . </Li> <Li> Harry Pidgeon; 1932--1937; third single - handed circumnavigation, first person to circumnavigate solo twice (1921--1925 and 1932--1937). </Li> <Li> Electa and Irving Johnson; 1934--1958; sail training pioneers, circumnavigated the world 7 times with amateur crews . </Li> <Li> Vito Dumas; 1942; single handed circumnavigation of the southern oceans, including the first single handed passage of all three great capes . </Li> <Li> Operation Sandblast; 1960; USS Triton; first underwater circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Operation Sea Orbit; 1964; USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge; first circumnavigation by an all - nuclear naval task force . </Li> <Li> 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Sir Francis Chichester; 1966--1967; first single - handed circumnavigation with just one port of call . </Li> <Li> Sir Alec Rose; 1967 - 1968; single - handed circumnavigation with two stops (in Australia and New Zealand). </Li> <Li> Leonid Teliga; 1967--1969; single - handed circumnavigation aboard SY Opty . </Li> <Li> Robin Knox - Johnston; 1968--1969; first single - handed non-stop circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Robin Lee Graham; 1965--1970; then youngest (at ages 16--21) solo circumnavigation aboard 24 - foot sailboat Dove . </Li> <Li> Chay Blyth; 1971; first westwards single - handed non-stop circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Edward Allcard; 1957--1973; circumnavigation via the three great capes aboard his 36 - foot wooden ketch Sea Wanderer . </Li> <Li> Jon Sanders; 1970 - 2017; completed ten circumnavigations. . <Ul> <Li> 1970 First solo circumnavigation trip east to west mostly sailing through tropics . </Li> <Li> 1981 - 82 Double nonstop solo circumnavigation west to east via Southern Ocean . </Li> <Li> 1986 - 88 Triple non-stop solo circumnavigation: 657 days 21 hours and 18 minutes at sea . The Guinness World Book of Records cites this as the longest distance sailed non-stop by any vessel (71,023 nautical miles) </Li> <Li> 2016 - 17 Completed 10th circumnavigation at the age of 78, mostly singlehanded . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> USS Inchon; ETR - 3 crew SEP - 1972 - SEP - 1973 Circumnavigation via Panama Canal Norfolk VA . East to West . </Li> <Li> Krystyna Chojnowska - Liskiewicz; 1976--1978; first woman to perform a single - handed circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Naomi James; 1977--1978; first woman to perform a single - handed circumnavigation via Cape Horn . </Li> <Li> Mark Schrader; 1982; completed two solo circumnavigations . In 1982--1983 became the first American to complete a solo circumnavigation via the five southernmost capes . </Li> <Li> Marvin Creamer (USA); 21 December 1982--17 May 1984; only known person to circumnavigate the globe by boat with no nautical aids, not even a compass or watch (1). </Li> <Li> Bertie Reed - 1982 - the first South African to complete three singlehanded circumnavigations . </Li> <Li> David Scott Cowper; 1985; first single - handed circumnavigation by motor boat . </Li> <Li> Dodge Morgan; 12 November 1985 - 11 April 1986; Aboard sailboat American Promise, became first American to sail solo around the world, non-stop . </Li> <Li> Trishna; 28 September 1985 - 10 January 1987; First Indian circumnavigation by an Indian Army Corps of Engineers crew . Also had the first handicapped sailor to sail around the globe . </Li> <Li> Teddy Seymour; 1987; aboard sailboat Love Song; the first African - American to complete solo single - handed circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Mike Plant; 1987--1991; completed three circumnavigations . <Ul> <Li> 1986--87: Won the BOC Challenge (Class II - Open 50) with a time of 157 days aboard Airco Distributor, an Open 50 sloop built by Plant and designed by Roger Martin . </Li> <Li> 1989: Competed in the first Vendée Globe on Duracell, an Open 60 sloop built by Plant and designed by Roger Martin . Although eliminated from the race after receiving help with a rudder repair in New Zealand, Plant still set a record for the fastest American to sail single - handed around the world with a time of 135 days . </Li> <Li> 1990 / 91: Finished 4th overall in the BOC Challenge, setting the highest mark in a solo - sailing event for an American with a time of 132 days . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> The Thurston Family; 1984--1987; First Australian family to complete a circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Tania Aebi; 1985--1987; American woman who completed a solo circumnavigation by the age of 21, one 80 - nautical - mile (150 km) stretch with crew disqualified her from an official record . </Li> <Li> Kay Cottee; 1988; first woman to perform a solo non-stop circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> David Scott Cowper; 1990; first single - handed circumnavigation via the North West Passage . </Li> <Li> Brian Caldwell; 1995 - 1996;' 1st - Under - Age - 21' to complete solo circumnavigation with stops, completed by age 20 . </Li> <Li> David Dicks; 1996; youngest recognized assisted circumnavigation, completed aged 18 years 41 days . </Li> <Li> Henk de Velde; 1997; sailed a catamaran eastbound around the world in 119 days, non-stop . He is still the only person in the world to perform this feat single - handed with a catamaran, although others have made faster single - handed circumnavigations in trimarans (Ellen MacArthur, 2005, and Francis Joyon, 2008). </Li> <Li> 1998 Ocean 7 Adventurer; July 1998 in 74 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes, traveling more than 22,600 nautical miles (41,855 km). This achievement set a new Guinness World Record for a powered vessel . </Li> <Li> Robert E. Case; 1998--2001; American who was the first solo amputee to sail around the world . </Li> <Li> Jesse Martin; 1999; youngest recognized unassisted circumnavigation, completed aged 18 years 66 days . </Li> <Li> Azhar Mansor; 1999; first Malaysian to sail solo around the world . </Li> <Li> Alex Thomson; 1999; youngest skipper ever to win a round the world race (Clipper 1998 - 1999). </Li> <Li> Daniel D. Moreland; 1997 - 1998; first circumnavigation of sail training vessel Picton Castle . </Li> <Li> Vinny Lauwers; 1999--2000; 233d 13h 43m 8s; 21760 nm; Vision Quest; first single - handed circumnavigation by a disabled sailor (paraplegic). </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Great White Fleet; 1907--1909; first fleet to circumnavigate the world . </Li>

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