Impact and Records
In the Caribbean, the approach of Faith caused the Antigua tracking station (which was tracking an unmanned rocket launched by NASA) to shut down 45 minutes after the rocket lifted off. Faith also produced gale force winds across the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. The winds only did minor damage and there were no reported fatalities or injuries. Rough seas from Faith, brought 10–15 ft waves to Trinidad and Tobago. The waves caused minor damage to small boats and jetties. In Bermuda, the outer rainbands of Hurricane Faith produced heavy rainfall and winds gusting to 62 mph. Four people died as a result of the storm; none of them were on land. One man was pitched overboard when his boat was battered by heavy seas. Two others drowned while trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. Another man was missing and presumed dead after heavy seas forced him and his shipmates to abandon their boat off the north coast of Denmark. Property damage was minimal, mainly because the areas impacted by Faith were sparsely populated.
Faith traveled for 12700 km (6850 mi), the longest track of an Atlantic hurricane and the second longest worldwide. The only tropical cyclone that traveled farther than Faith was Hurricane John in the North Pacific Ocean. Faith also traveled to the most northerly latitude of any Atlantic hurricane. Faith was also one of the longest duration tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean on record, lasting 16 days total and spending 13 as a hurricane.
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