The Circumnavigators Club is the only organization devoted to bringing together those men and women who have circumnavigated the globe. It was organized in 1902 when two Americans, Joe D. Morrison and James H. Birch, sailing across the Indian Ocean aboard the S.S. Barbarossa, discussed their good fortune to have gone around the world. They decided that there was need for a club composed of those adventurous individuals who had actually experienced the ultimate experience of travel. On their return to New York, they were joined by world traveler Edward H. Patterson and the Club was founded. These founders are known as the Club's "Three Immortals.”