birth_date: 1903-08-01 00:00:00
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name: Stephen Wentworth Roskill
about: Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA, DLitt, was a career officer in the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history.
death_date: 1982-11-04 00:00:00