HMS Driver (1840)
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HMS Driver was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She is credited with the first global circumnavigation by a steamship when she arrived back in England on 14 May 1847.
HMS Driver
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Circumnavigation is the complete navigation of a person around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body. This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth.
HMS Driver (1840)
…HMS Driver was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She is credited with the first global circumnavigation by a steamship when she arrived back in England on 14 May 1847. Driver was ordered on 12 March 1840 from Portsmouth Dockyard to a design by Sir William…
Jason Lewis of Expedition 360 pedalling his boat Moksha on the River Thames in London, shortly before completing the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth (2007)
A replica of Magellan and Elcano's Nao Victoria, the first vessel to circumnavigate the planet
In 2012, the Swiss boat PlanetSolar became the first solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe.