William Deltoris Pinkney III (1935 - 2023)

Born 15 Sep 1935 in Illinois, United States

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Died 31 Aug 2023 at age 87 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

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Biography

William Pinkney III is Notable.

WIlliam was the first Black sailor to solo circumnavigate the globe via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.^[1]

William was born in 1935. He passed away in 2023.

He was a US Navy Veteran.

The New York Times newspaper online said he was "the first Black sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone by the arduous southern route."

"After his historic trip, Mr. Pinkney went on to become a trustee of the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, where he oversaw the building of a replica of the Amistad, the Cuban schooner that West African slaves commandeered in 1839 as they were being transported to the Caribbean."

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia entry for Bill Pinkney

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/sports/sailing/bill-pinkney-dead.html

• "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL9S-SF1T : 10 October 2022), William Deltoris Pinkney in entry for William Deltoris Pinkney, 1935.