Talk:Francis Chichester

message: Hi, I put the second link away, because i think is not the good one. CaptainHaddock 15:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article is confusing about his family: it refers to his wife-to-be Sheila in 1958, while the linked entry on his younger son gives the son a birthdate of 1946. Were the children Sheila Chichester's, and if so, were they married before 1958? Or was he previously married to someone else, and Sheila Chichester his children's stepmother?Filigree11 (talk) 16:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to ODNB he married Muriel Eileen Blakiston in 1923 and they had two sons, one stillborn and a second George who died in 1967. The marriage broke up after a few years and Muriel died in 1929. In 1937 he married Sheila Mary Craven and they had one son Giles. MilborneOne (talk) 19:57, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family? 

message: Hey there, I'm not keen to edit this as there's conflicting information, but the article has Chichester crashing in Katsuura, Chiba.  Encyclopedia Britannica article here  states that it's Katsuura Harbor in Wakayama - fair distance away.  The latter gibes better with his description in his bio and also is 10 miles from Shingu where he was taken to hospital (there's no Shingu in Chiba that I can see). The map in the same bio has the Katsuura in Chiba - one must be right, but which one? --118.209.47.44 (talk) 22:21, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea about the geography of Japan but Flight says "he was proceeding from Katsuxra to Tokio on August 15; when he met with a nasty accident. He had experienced some difficulty in getting the "Moth" seaplane of the water, and had just succeeded at the third attempt, when the machine caught a telegraph wire while crossing the village and crashed into the sea wall." MilborneOne (talk) 20:03, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

text: The London Times on 17 Auguist 1931 has a similar tale but spells the location as Katsuura and mentions he was taken to hospital in Shingu. MilborneOne (talk) 20:06, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Katsuura

message: My recollection is that Chichester, weakened by cancer, had to abandon Gipsy Moth V and was rescued by a ship. Wikiain (talk) 19:49, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gipsy Moth V 

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message: What precisely did Chichester do "first"?  I had thought he was the first solo circumnavigator, since seeing him come in at Plymouth in 1967 - until someone added Vito Dumas here.  Now I find that Chichester himself mentions Dumas, Nance, Slocum and O'Brien:  Along the Clipper Way, pp 69-70. Wikiain (talk) 20:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "First" at what? 

message: When Chichester appeared on television in 1967, he had difficulty speaking.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.38.71 (talk) 15:10, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Television