Peter_Herbert_(Royal_Navy_officer)

Peter Herbert (Royal Navy officer)

Peter Herbert (Royal Navy officer)

Royal Navy admiral (1929–2019)

Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior Royal Navy officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

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Educated at Dunchurch Hall and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Herbert was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1949.[1] He served in submarines for much of his early career and then became Commander of the nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Valiant, in 1963.[1]

He was made Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Blake in 1974, and then Deputy Chief of the Polaris Executive in 1976.[1] He went on to be Flag Officer, Carriers and Amphibious Ships in 1978 and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1980.[1]

He was appointed Flag Officer Submarines and Commander, Submarines, Eastern Atlantic Area in 1981 and in that role took part in the Falklands War.[2] He was promoted to full admiral on 10 June 1983,[3] and became Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff the same year.[1]

In retirement he became a Non-Executive Director of Radamec Group plc.[4]

He died on 3 May 2019 at the age of 90.[5]

Family

In 1953, he married Anne Maureen McKeown (died 11 January 2012) and they went on to have one son and one daughter.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Debretts People of Today 1994
  2. [2]
    The Falklands conflict twenty years on: lessons for the future By Stephen Badsey, Page 87 Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-35030-3
  3. [3]
    "No. 49370". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1983. p. 7585.
  4. [4]
    Radamec Group PLC
  5. [5]
    Herbert
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