Come Sailing!, True Story of Submarines, Life in the Navy Today, Boys' Book of Sailing, Sailing. Plays (co-written with his wife Margaret Hackforth-Jones) Sweethearts and Wives (1952), The Policeman and the Lady (1955), Eight Points for the Admiral (1963). Screenplay The Baby and the Battleship (co-author). References Gilbert Hackforth-Jones' Rootsweb profile 1900 births 1982 deaths British children's writers Royal Navy submarine commanders Royal Navy officers of World War I Royal Navy officers of World War II 20th-century British novelists British male novelists 20th-century British male writers