Because September 26th marks Maritime Day, I received notice of my maritime notable
connections from wikitree.com.

I am:
15 degrees from Simeon Perkins - Loyalist privateer during the US Revolutionary War

27 degrees from Peter Blake - New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1898-1990 Whitbread round-the-world race and also led New Zealand to successive victories in the
America's Cup.

22 degrees from Genie Clark - ichthyologist known for both her research on shark
behavior and fish in the order Tetraodontiformes, as well as for being a pioneer in the
field of scuba diving for research purposes.

23 degrees from Jeanne de Clisson - 'The Lionness of Brittany," who became a privateer
to avenge the death of her husband by Philip VI of France.

28 degrees from Michiel de Ruyter - Dutch States Navy officer. His achievements with
the Dutch navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him a reputation as one of the most
skilled naval commanders in history.

30 degrees from Matthew Flinders - the first person to circumnavigate the Australian
continent, and whose charts of that circumnavigation were shown to be extremely
accurate once humankind went into space. He is also the person credited for using the
word Australia to describe the entire continent including Van Diemen's Land.

20 degrees from Thor Heyerdahl - who sailed the hand built balsa raft Kon-Tiki from
South America to French Polynesia to prove possible Polynesian origins. He performed a
similar experiment sailing from Africa to Barbados in a boat made of papyrus.

29 degrees from Violet Lewis - a nurse who survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic
disasters.

18 degrees from Matthew Maury - nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of
Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology" was an American oceanographer, astronomer, historian, meteorologist.

31 degrees from Robert Smalls - formerly enslaved, during the US Civil War commandeered a Confederate ship, sailed it out of Charleston harbor, and surrendered it
to Union forces, thus also freeing 16 slaves who were on board. Afterward, served in the
Union Navy as a pilot and then captain. Later in life served in the U.S. House of
Representatives.

26 degrees from Sarah Taylor - part of the "Golden 14", who were the first Black women
to serve as Yeomen, a clerical rating, in the US Navy.

26 degrees from Felix Von Luckner - was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and
sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel, or the Sea Devil.

It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians, physicians, detectives,
architects, actors, comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL
are.

WikiTree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.

If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to: https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm
and click on the 'Request Form' link.

I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.

Mike Dippel
https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelDippel

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