sentences:  A founding member of the North American Society for Oceanic History, he served as a vice president from 1975 to 1990.He served as a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History, from 1961.A close associate of Professor Robert G. Albion, Kemble was one of the original faculty members of the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, where Kemble House is named for him.