 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
J. Revell Carr (born 1939) is an American author, historian, curator and museum director.
| This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
J. Revell Carr (born 1939) is an American author, historian, curator and museum director.
Carr was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He had a long career at Mystic Seaport. He held leadership positions in a number of other museum and cultural organizations. He has written two non-fiction books. In 2000, Carr was designated The Nathaniel Bowditch Maritime Scholar of the Year, by the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Carr holds a BA from Rutgers University and an MA degree from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a diploma in Strategic Non-profit Management from the Harvard Business School. Carr graduated from U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI and served for two years in USS De Haven (DD-727) home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan. After serving on the faculty of Officer Candidate School, he completed active duty in 1967 with the rank of Lieutenant.
He worked at Mystic Seaport for over 30 years, serving as Chief Curator and as Director and President for 23 years, retiring in 2000. [1] During this time, he held advisory positions with the International Congress of Maritime Museums, the Council of American Maritime Museums, the Advisory Council to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), UNESCO, the American Association of Museums, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Maritime Heritage Task Force, and served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History. Additionally, Carr advised the governments of Great Britain and France on the preservation of maritime history[ citation needed ], and consulted with maritime preservation efforts[ clarification needed ] and museums in numerous other countries.
Carr collated Amerikanische Schiffsbilder, [2] the catalogue for an American Bicentennial Exhibition, which he curated in Hamburg, Germany, in 1976. Carr's first book, All Brave Sailors – The Sinking of the Anglo-Saxon, [3] was published in 2003. Walter Cronkite, in commenting on All Brave Sailors, said, “Revell Carr in one of the world’s outstanding maritime historians. It turns out he writes like a prize-winning novelist.” [4] The book received a Starred Review in “Publishers Weekly”, [5] was the subject of a documentary on the German television program Aspekte, was a selection for the U.S. Navy Reading List, [6] and was also included in the list of “101 Crackerjack Sea Books” compiled by Bookmarks magazine. [7] In 2008, Carr published Seeds of Discontent – Deep Roots of the American Revolution, [8] focusing the roots of the American Revolutionary War going back to the founding of the United States.
Carr served as the Historical Advisor for the A&E Network's 1958 The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis[ citation needed ], has appeared in documentaries in the Sea Tales Series and made a number of television appearances for Operation Sail. [9]
In 2013, Carr helped found the Women's International Study Center (WISC) [10] in Santa Fe and he serves as the President of the WISC Board. He is also President of the Board of Santa Fe Pro Musica, the chamber orchestra and ensembles. Currently, he is at work on another book and is a regular lecturer for Road Scholar and Holland America Lines.
Mystic is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut.
A maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea.
Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.
Joseph Conrad is an iron-hulled sailing ship, originally launched as Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark. After sailing around the world as a private yacht in 1934 she served as a training ship in the United States, and is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841 that was active during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Ships of this type were used to harvest the blubber of whales for whale oil which was commonly used in lamps. Charles W. Morgan has served as a museum ship since the 1940s and is now an exhibit at the Mystic Seaport museum in Mystic, Connecticut. She is the world's oldest surviving (non-wrecked) merchant vessel, the only surviving wooden whaling ship from the 19th century American merchant fleet, and second to USS Constitution, the oldest seaworthy vessel in the world. Charles W. Morgan was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
Anthony John Francis Smith was, among other things, a writer, sailor, balloonist and former Tomorrow's World television presenter. He was perhaps best known for his bestselling work The Body, which has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, The Human Body, known in America by the name Intimate Universe: The Human Body. The series aired in 1998 and was presented by Professor Robert Winston.
The Independence Seaport Museum was founded in 1961 and is located in the Penn's Landing complex along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The collections at the Independence Seaport Museum document maritime history and culture along the Delaware River. At the museum are two National Historic Landmark ships and the J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library.
Joan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist, specialising in maritime history and crime fiction.
Sabino is a small wooden, coal-fired steamboat built in 1908 and located at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only two surviving members of the American mosquito fleet, and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992. It is America's oldest regularly operating coal-powered steamboat.
Georg Stage is a name used by the independent foundation Georg Stages Minde that was established in 1882 by the shipowner Frederik Stage and his wife Thea. They recognized the need for better skills assessment and training of Denmark's sailors so the ship serves as a training-platform for sailors in Denmark. The ship memorialized their son, who died from tuberculosis in 1880, age 22.
John Faunce Leavitt (1905–1974) was a well-known shipbuilder, writer on maritime subjects, painter of marine canvases, and curator of Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut.
The Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, held annually in June from 1979 to 2020 at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, was among the oldest, and was the largest sea music festival in the United States. It reportedly attracted "the highest caliber of sea music performers, scholars, and fans." The Festival was first organized by Dr. Stuart M. Frank as a place to perform and hear sea music as well as a symposium for ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and historians.
Lady Elizabeth was a British ship built in 1869 by Robert Thompson Jr. of Sunderland. Robert Thompson Jr. was one of the sons of Robert Thompson Sr. who owned and operated the family ran shipyard J. L. Thompson & Sons. Thompson Jr. eventually left the family business in 1854 to start his own shipbuilding business in Southwick, Sunderland. She was 658 tons and was classified as a barque cargo sailing ship with one deck and three masts. She had a keel and outer planking made from American rock elm and a fore end made from English elm. The stem was made of teak and English oak with an iron floor as the deck. The ship also had copper and iron fastings. The ships was also registered in London under the name Wilson & Co. Messrs Wilson & Co. was based out of Sydney, Australia. The ship carried a comparative classification under American Lloyd's as "First class-third grade"
John Pierce Rousmaniere is an American writer and author of 30 historical. technical, and instructional books on sailing, yachting history, New York history, business history, and the histories of clubs, businesses, and other organizations. An authority on seamanship and boating safety, he has conducted tests of equipment and sailing skills and led or participated in fact-finding inquiries into boating accidents. He has been presented with several awards for his writing and his contributions to boating safety and seamanship.
SS Anglo Saxon was a cargo ship carrying coal from Wales to Argentina that was sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser Widder on 21 August 1940. Several of the crew managed to get in a jolly boat, an all purpose small boat that could also be used as a lifeboat. It carried the surviving members of the ship's crew west across the Atlantic Ocean for 70 days, before finally landing in Eleuthera. By the time the jolly boat made landfall, only two of the seven survivors of the attack were still alive.
Charles L. Peterson, also known as Chick Peterson, was an American artist known for watercolor paintings and for maritime artwork. He was also known for painting ghosts that are not in watercolor, but were placed within otherwise watercolor paintings.
The Moses H. Grinnell was a 19th-century pilot boat built in 1850 for the New York maritime pilots. She was designed by the yacht designer George Steers. The Grinnell was the first pilot boat to feature a fully developed concave clipper-bow, which was to become the New York schooner-rigged pilot boat's trade mark. This new design was the basis for the celebrated yacht America.
The Mary E. Fish was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat, built at the Edward F. Williams shipyard of Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1861 for Richard Brown and the New York Pilots. She was built to replace the Mary Taylor. The Fish was hit and sank by the schooner Frank Harrington in 1885 and replaced by the David Carll.
William Deltoris Pinkney III was an American sailor and executive. In 1992, he became the first African American to sail around the world solo via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.
Wilhelm Werner was a German naval officer in the First World War and SS staff general in the Second World War. As commander of U-55 during World War I he participated in several controversial actions, including the murder by drowning of surrendered crews of some of the ships he sank and attacks on marked hospital ships. The British government sought to prosecute Werner at the Leipzig war crimes trials, but he fled to Brazil, where he was reported to have worked as an architect and a coffee planter.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
