He wrote articles for the BAOR newspaper Polar Bear News and became a writer and producer for the British Forces Network in Germany.

Among many other subjects, his plays covered Trotsky's assassination, Dr Semmelweiss's campaign to get modern standards of hygiene adopted in hospitals across Europe, and the "mad" monk Rasputin's odd story and seemingly hypnotic influence on the Russian Imperial Family.

Next, he drove forward the discussed but unauctioned project to search for King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose.

His vision already detailed most of what later became reality, even to the opening of the new Mary Rose Museum, and much of what he wrote is reiterated in publications by later authors.

[2] In contrast, McKee's more frequently referenced book How We Found the Mary Rose was published as late as 1982, nearly a decade later.