Ken Kinkor

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Kenneth J. Kinkor
BornJanuary 26, 1954
DiedJune 7, 2013(2013-06-07) (aged 59)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLoras College
Occupation(s)historian
editor

Kenneth J. Kinkor (January 26, 1954 – June 7, 2013) was an American

pirate historian
.

Kinkor graduated from Loras College, Iowa, in 1976, majoring in history and political science, and pursued post-graduate studies in Iowa and Illinois. He moved to Massachusetts in 1986 and joined Historic Shipwrecks Inc., the company of underwater explorer Barry Clifford who had discovered the wreck of

Kinkor would spend the next 27 years as Project Historian, researching the history of Whydah and other pirate, privateering, and historic wrecks.[2] He would also make national television appearances on National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel and History Channel as an expert in piracy.[1]

Kinkor was the compiler and editor of the Whydah Sourcebook containing a vast collection of 17th and 18th century archival records concerning the history of the British slave ship

Whydah Galley, its capture by the crew of pirate Samuel Bellamy
, its demise at Cape Cod, and the court trial and testimonies of the surviving crew.

Kinkor also wrote the foreword of New England author Edward Rowe Snow's historic work Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, and was co-author with Barry Clifford of the National Geographic Society's exhibition catalog book Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship and a special NAT GEO KIDS children's hardback edition of the same title.

Kinkor died on June 7, 2013, at the age of 59.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary: Kenneth Kinkor". Schluter-Balik Funeral Home. June 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Fraser, Doug (June 12, 2013). "Whydah historian Kinkor dies at 59". Cape Cod Online. Local Media Group Inc. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2013.

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