Round-the-world sailor missing", The Guardian (Manchester), July 11, 1969, p1 "Lone Sailor's Fate Is Mystery", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 11, 1969, p5 Crowhurst, who had last been seen on July 7 at a point 600 miles west of the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, had been one of the six entrants in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, which offered a £5,000 prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe, and Robin Knox-Johnston had already finished the race on April 22.