Harry Pidgeon
Sailor, Author
1869 – 1954
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Who was Harry Pidgeon?
Harry Clifford Pidgeon, was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world, 23 years after Joshua Slocum. Pidgeon was the first person to do this via the Panama Canal, and the first person to solo circumnavigate the world twice. On both trips, he sailed a 34-foot yawl named the Islander, which Pidgeon constructed by himself. He accounts for his adventures in his book, Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the "Islander".
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- Born
- Aug 31, 1869
Henry County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Iowa
(1869 - 1875) - Alaska
- California
(1875 - )
- Iowa
- Died
- 1954
San Pedro
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on July 23, 2013
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