Lorne Currie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lorne Currie

Olympic sailor

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1871

Place of Birth: Le Havre, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1926

Profession: skipper

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Lorne Campbell Currie (25 April 1871, Le Havre, France – 21 June 1926 Le Havre) was a sailor from Great Britain, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France.
With crew John Gretton, Linton Hope and Algernon Maudslay.
Currie, as helmsman, took first place in race of the .5 to 1 ton. His father, John Martin Currie, was a younger brother of Donald Currie, the ship owner, and acted as agent for the firm in Le Havre, where Lorne Currie was born and raised.