J. Revell Carr

In 2000, Carr was designated The Nathaniel Bowditch Maritime Scholar of the Year, by the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI and served for two years in USS De Haven (DD-727) home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan.

Carr collated Amerikanische Schiffsbilder,[2] the catalogue for an American Bicentennial Exhibition, which he curated in Hamburg, Germany, in 1976.

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.