A MASTER MARINER OF THE 20th CENTURY: CAPTAIN JOHN KEMP M.B.E.
AUTHOR Eric Kemp
A lifetime account of Captain John Kemp M.B.E. from his birth in the small fishing village of St. Ives and his early experiences growing up before and during the First World War, through to becoming a highly respected Captain in the Merchant Navy with over fifty years of seamanship. This is an insight into the Merchant Navy and a real piece of maritime history, with good accounts of the ships and a large number of black and white photographs.
Eric Kemp was educated at schools in St. Ives and Truro and then was apprenticed to the Bucknall Steamship Company. He achieved chief officer status with the Trinity House Steamship Vessel Service was a master on the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company and Carisbrook Shipping. With his wife Jill, and their two children, he has remained based in St. Ives and has been a Trinity House pilot for Mount’s Bay and a St. Ives bay fisheries officer in MAFF. He has also been St. Ives lifeboat secretary and a Liberal councilor.
PUBLISHED BY United Writers Publications Ltd., Cornwall, 2003. 14cm. x 22cm. 103 pages. Hardback
