Bernard Carp
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| Full name | Bernard Carp | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||
| Born |
April 17, 1901 Sragi, Lampung, Dutch East Indies |
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| Died | July 22, 1966 (aged 65) Aerdenhout |
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| Class(es) | 6.5 Metre | ||||||||||||
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Bernard "Berend" Carp (April 17, 1901 in Sragi, Lampung, Dutch East Indies - July 22, 1966, Aerdenhout) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Ostend, Belgium. With helmsman and brother Joop Carp and fellow crew member Petrus Wernink, sailing the Dutch boat Oranje, Carp took the Gold in the 6.5 Metre.
In 1922 Carp started by the de n.v. Erven Lucas Bols in Amsterdam. He carreed up to director in 1936. In 1946 he moved to Cape Town to lead a distillery of Lucas Bols.
Carp financed several ornithological expeditions during the 1950s is Southeren Africa (Namibia). He published the story of these expeditions in his book I Chose Africa.
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