Cargo Work

by John F. Kemp, Peter Young

This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David House, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title, "Seamanship Techniques", and will prove indispensable to the student reader.This book is concerned with how cargoes are carried in the vessel and how to transport these various different types of cargo safely. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, Bulk cargoes, General cargoes, refrigerated cargoes, tanker cargoes, deck cargoes and cargoes requiring special care. Essential updates added by David House include the more modern container work, Roll-On, Roll-Off ferries, together with an additional chapter on modernised cargo handling practices.Well-known Kemp & Young style and stableCheap and AccessibleLeading author

124 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

John Frederick Kemp was a sailor for ten years in UK merchant ships. He then “swallowed the anchor” and, as he puts it, degenerated into an academic. He became Dean of a Faculty, but took early retirement, as an Emeritus Professor, to care full-time for his wife Shirley, who was suffering from Dementia.

The following eight years were challenging, but he coped by observing the humorous side of the events that made up their lives. He recorded these in letters to his GP, because he thought that Doctors generally have sad lives as a result of meeting so many sick people every day. Later, when Shirley had passed away, he wrote this material up as his first book, “Caring for Shirley”.

John is now in his eighties and, supposedly, retired in Arundel, UK, although his new wife, Shirley, says he is usually tinkering with several projects at any one time. The latest of these has been to write “Copse and Codgers” about two octogenarian, retired sailors. These characters, Bill and Shorty, find themselves inadvertently caught up with some militant environmentalists, and there are many twists in a closely woven plot before they are able to extricate themselves.