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Victoria Murden McClure (born March 6, 1963 [1]) is an athlete, adventurer, chaplain, lawyer, and university administrator who was the first woman and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1999. [2]
First woman to cross the United States in an autogyro (1931) First woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932) First person to fly the Atlantic twice (1932) First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932) First woman to fly nonstop, coast-to-coast across the U.S. (1932) [221] Women's speed transcontinental record (1933)
Sharon Sites Adams (born 29 May 1930) [1] was the first woman to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean, which she did in 1969, from Yokohama to San Diego in her boat named "Sea Sharp II". [2] [3] [4] For this feat she was named the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1969. [3] She was born in Washington, with the given names Phyllis Mae. [1]
In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. In 1956, the sail-equipped raft L'Égaré II crossed from Newfoundland to England, after the failure of L'Égaré I. [12] In 1965, Robert Manry crossed the Atlantic from the U.S. to England non-stop in a 4.1-metre (13-foot) sailboat named Tinkerbelle. [13]
Julie is the first woman to row the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland. Her Atlantic row was part of an expedition with her then fiancé, Colin Angus,to circumnavigate the Northern hemisphere entirely by human power. She accompanied Colin Angus for half of the expedition.
The Pacific is the largest of the planet's oceans, but to Sonya Baumstein it's just one more big body of water waiting to be crossed. She intends to do so on a rowboat, just as she did with the ...
She holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. [3] She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life (2007–2009) at sea in a 23-foot rowboat.
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [18] 1933 Lotfia ElNadi: First African woman and first Arab woman to earn a pilot's license. 1937 Sabiha Gökçen: The first military woman to fly combat missions. 1948 Daisy Pon The first woman aeronautical engineering graduate in Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto. [19]