Adventurers: Explorers, Pirates, Map Makers
This part of our website includes allsorts of interesting people from Welsh Pirates like Black Bart to explorers and cartographers (map makers) to magnificent hero's like Harold Lowe. True one would expect nearly all of these people to be historical personalities but there are adventures with a Welsh connection alive and well and doing their best to open frontiers today, even in space with NASA astronaut Joe Tanner.
David Thompson
The man who measured Canada! This prodigious explorer surveyed most of the Canadian - US border during the early days of the country. Covering 80,000 miles on foot, dog sled, horseback and canoe some two hundred years ago. He defined one-fifth of the North American continent.
Daniel Boone, adventurer with links to Tredegar, Wales
Daniel Boone
American frontiersman of note.
Davey Crockett, adventurer
Davey Crockett
American frontiersman.
Gwylym Williams Morriston, Swansea
Gwylym Williams
A British double agent working for MI5 during the second world war, his cover was being a Welsh Nationalist.
Andrew Evans (Jr.), Highest ranking POW in the Korean War
Andrew Evans (Jr.)
Major General, USAF. Ace fighter pilot in WWII. Highest ranking POW in the Korean War.
Sir Henry Morgan (Captain), Llanrumney, Glamorgan
Captain Sir Henry Morgan
This, the greatest of all the "brethren of the coast," was a Welshman, born at Llanrumney (probably at Llanrumney Hall, now a pub) in Monmouthshire in the year 1635. The son of a well-to-do farmer, Robert Morgan, he early took to the seafaring life.
Harold Lowe: Titanic hero from Eglwys Rhos, Caernarfonshire, North Wales
Harold Lowe
From Caernarfonshire, Wales
Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe RD RNR wrote his name into history as a hero for actions during the loss of the White Star Ship, TITANIC.
Harold is portrayed by Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd in the James Cameron movie 'Titanic' where we have a sense of the urgency and danger he was facing.
As the ship's Fifth Officer he was instrumental in organising the release of lifeboats and having taken his own charge to safety away from the stricken vessel was so appalled to see passengers in the...