Joseph Warren Holmes
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|name = Joseph Warren Holmes
|image =
|caption =
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1824|4|1|mf=y}}
|birth_place = Mystic, Connecticut, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1912|12|12|1824|4|1|mf=y}}
|death_place = Mystic, Connecticut, U.S.
|known_for =
|occupation = Sea captain
|nationality = American
}}
Captain Joseph Warren Holmes (April 1, 1824 – December 12, 1912) was an American sea captain noted for sailing around Cape Horn 84 times and Cape of Good Hope 14 times without a shipwreck or loss of a crewman.{{cite web |url=http://mobius.mysticseaport.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=maker&s=Holmes%2C+Joseph+Warren&record=1 |title=Portrait of Joseph Warren Holmes (1824-1912) |publisher=Mystic Seaport |accessdate=2008-10-25}} He had a 63-year career at sea, including 55 commanding clipper ships and others.{{cite web |url=http://www.theicrc.org/vewebsite/exhibit1/e10979a.htm |title=Kim03-071 Scrapbook |publisher=Indian & Colonial Research Center Library |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319145245/http://www.theicrc.org/vewebsite/exhibit1/e10979a.htm |archivedate=2008-03-19 }} He was the captain of more voyages around Cape Horn than anyone else.
Early life
Joseph Warren Holmes was born on April 1, 1824, in Mystic, Connecticut{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Frederick C. |title=American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900 |year=1930 |publisher=Marine Research Society |oclc=3681274 |pages=32}}{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/biographicalrevi00biogo/biographicalrevi00biogo_djvu.txt |title=Biographical Review |date=1898 |publisher=Boston, Biographical review publishing company }} Joseph Warren Holmes's father was Jeremiah Holmes. Jeremiah Holmes was a part of the War of 1812 and at the time was well respected in Mystic, Connecticut.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}
Ships under Holmes' command
Captain Holmes sailed as master on various ships in the course of his career, including four ships built in Mystic, Connecticut: the bark Frances, clipper Seminole, and ships Elisabeth F. Willets and Haze.
{{Cite web
|title = University of Connecticut Digital Mosaic
|work = Captain Joseph Warren Holmes of Mystic
|publisher = University of CT
|origyear = 1908
|year = 2009
|url = http://images.lib.uconn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cho&CISOPTR=11742
|accessdate = May 9, 2010
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110720073726/http://images.lib.uconn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcho&CISOPTR=11742
|archivedate = July 20, 2011
}}
Descendants
Joseph Warren Holmes married twice and had one son from his first marriage, Edwin Warren Holmes. His son married Mary O. Kennedy (of California) and he died in San Francisco in 1883. He did have a grandson, also named Edwin Warren Holmes that was born around 1882. There are no other known descendants.
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20121215015346/http://images.lib.uconn.edu/u?/cho,11742 "Portrait of Captain Joseph Warren Holmes of Mystic]. He is bald, has white "mutton chop" whiskers ... a dark jacket and bow tie"
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724121204/http://www.cthistoryonline.org/cdm-cho/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cho&CISOPTR=11497&CISOBOX=1&REC=9 Captain Joseph Warren Holmes house, Mystic, Connecticut]}}, at Connecticut History Online
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Category:People from Mystic, Connecticut
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