# The Greatest Mariner Who Ever Lived

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**Created:** [June 3, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-greatest-mariner-who-ever-lived/63259 "2022-06-03T12:47:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-greatest-mariner-who-ever-lived/63259/1 "2022-06-03T12:47:20Z")

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Here’s a story of the GOAT of mariners. Happy National Donut Day folks.

> **[The Maine Ship Captain Who Invented the Modern Donut - New England Historical...](https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/maine-ship-captain-invented-modern-donut/)**
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> In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis Hine took the photo of a waitress next to a plate of donuts (with holes), Capt. Hansen Gregory lived in the next town. He was telling his cronies how...