Search for a CallingĬhichester was born September 17, 1901, in Shirwell, Devon, England, the second of four children in a family headed by an austere, Anglican-minister father.
The author of several books that chronicled his years of solo escapades, Chichester asserted that "the only way to live life to the full is to do something that depends on both the brain and on physical sense and action," according to the New York Times. Throughout his life, Chichester was an adventurer in the air and on the sea, setting records as an aviator and a seaman.Ĭhichester had previously won fame for flying around the world in his single-engine Gipsy Moth plane during the 1930s. His voyage set a new world circumnavigation record of 274 days for its arduous, 28,500-mile journey.
British adventurer Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972) gained worldwide fame in the summer of 1967 when he completed an around-the-world solo trip in his yacht, the Gipsy Moth IV.
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