5/13/2023 0 Comments Slocum sail around the worldHe “was gathering in the sail, when a gust struck him, and pitched him off. In April 1895, some 30 years after he scampered aloft that day, Slocum told a Boston Herald reporter the shocking thing that happened to him. The crew is ordered aloft and one of them, a young seaman named Joshua Slocum, begins climbing nimbly to AGRA’s main upper topsail yard. Shaw tells his mate it is time to reduce sail. Now, as the wind gusts become stronger, Capt. She has turned in runs of 350 miles per day, only about 50 miles less than the fastest clipper ships. She is of a type known as a “moderate clipper,” designed to carry more cargo at some sacrifice in speed compared to the “full” clippers, whose heyday is all but finished. Foster & Co., the 174′ AGRA is still a relatively new vessel. Launched in 1862 at the redoubtable Medford, Massachusetts, yard of J.T. Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, probably sometime in 1866, a ship named AGRA faces a rising wind.
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