It was during this visit that Slocum met Captain Eben Pierce, a retired seaman who lived on the area known as Poverty Point. With the publication of his book, Slocum toured with the Liberdade, at one point stopping in Fairhaven, MA in August of 1890. Joshua Slocum’s first feat of fame came following the publication of his book Voyage of the Liberdade, about the shipwreck of his ship the Aquidneck and the building of the 35-foot Liberdade, that he and his family sailed on from Brazil back to America.
In Fairhaven, MA a commemorative boulder with a bronze plaque sits in a park on Pilgrim Avenue close to where Slocum rebuilt and launched the Spray. He followed a route that took him to Nova Scotia, the Azores, Gibraltar, South America, Samoa, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies, and finally, in June 1898, to Newport, R.I., to complete his circumnavigation. Joshua Slocum, born in Nova Scotia in 1844, became the first person to sail alone around the world when In April 1895 he set sail from Boston in the 36-foot Spray. The Spray was launched near this site and returned The First Man To Sail Around The World Alone
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