Great Officer and Rating Figures of the Royal Navy

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Great Officer and Rating Figures of the Royal Navy

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SEVENTY-SIX YEARS SINCE THE NAVY LOST ITS ARCHITECT OF SALVATION AND VICTORY
02 January 2021
Ask most sailors to name the Navy’s greatest 20th Century commander and names such as Cunningham, Fraser, Keyes, Beatty, maybe Pound or Chatfield might be offered.

Admiral Sir Betram Ramsay, who died on this day in 1945, was a leader more in the Eisenhower vein: a supreme organiser rather than a seagoing commander, directing operations from a headquarters rather than an admiral’s bridge, and the man behind not one but two of the greatest naval operations ever mounted.

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