Died 10 October 1996 Battles/wars World War II Rank Vice Admiral | Service/branch Royal Navy Allegiance United Kingdom Name Hugh Mackenzie | |
Commands held HMS H28
HMS H43
HMS Thrasher
HMS Tantalus | ||
Vice Admiral Sir Hugh Stirling Mackenzie KCB, DSO & Bar, DSC (3 July 1913 – 10 October 1996) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Submarines.
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Naval career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Mackenzie served in the Second World War becoming commanding officer of the submarine HMS H28 in March 1941, of the submarine HMS H43 in June 1941, of the submarine HMS Thrasher (in which he sank 40,000 tons of enemy shipping) in March 1943 and of the submarine HMS Tantalus (in which he conducted a single patrol of nearly 12,000 miles) in June 1945.
Mackenzie went on to be commanding officer of the Underwater Detection Establishment at Portland in 1952, commander of the 1st Destroyer Squadron in June 1954 and Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Submarines in December 1956. After that he became Captain of the Boys’ Training Establishment HMS Ganges in January 1959, Flag Officer Submarines in September 1961 and Chief of the Polaris Executive in Spring 1963 before retiring in September 1968.
Family
In 1946 Mackenzie married Helen Maureen Bradish-Ellames; they had a son and two daughters.