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Full name | Bernard Carp | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||
Born | Sragi, Lampung, Dutch East Indies | 17 April 1901||||||||||||||
Died | 22 July 1966 Hout Bay, South Africa | (aged 65)||||||||||||||
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Class | 6.5 Metre | ||||||||||||||
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Updated on 2013-12-25. |
Bernard "Berend" Carp (17 April 1901, Sragi, Lampung, Dutch East Indies – 22 July 1966, Hout Bay, South Africa)[1] was an Olympic 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.[2]
In 1922 Carp started at the de n.v. Erven Lucas Bols in Amsterdam. He advanced his career 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 Southern Africa (Namibia). He published the story of these expeditions in his book I Chose Africa.