Gordon Tait (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Allen Gordon Tait, KCB, DSC (30 October 1921 – 29 May 2005) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1977 to 1979.[2] In 1941, while serving as a junior officer on HMS Nigeria, he seized the Enigma cipher settings from the German weather ship Lauenburg.[1] He served in submarines in the Mediterranean and Far East from 1942 until the end of the war,[2] being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his skill and courage as a gunnery officer.[2] He went on to be Assistant Naval Adviser at the UK High Commission in Canada in 1957,[2] and commanded the destroyer HMS Caprice from 1960.[2] In 1972 he became Naval Secretary at the Ministry of Defence and in 1975 he was made Flag Officer, Plymouth and Admiral Superintendent at Devonport.
TimaruAucklandRoyal NavyAdmiralFlag Officer, PlymouthRoyal Naval College DartmouthHMS Maidstone2nd Destroyer SquadronHMS AjaxHMS CapriceHMS SanguineHMS Tally-HoHMS AurochsHMS AmbushHMS SolentHMS TeredoSecond World WarKnight Commander of the Order of the BathDistinguished Service CrossMentioned in DespatchesSecond Sea Lord and Chief of Naval PersonnelArctic convoysHMS NigeriaEnigma cipher settingsGerman weather ship LauenburgMediterraneanFar Eastcommanding officersubmarineAide-de-campSir Bernard FreybergGovernor General of New Zealanddestroyerfrigatesubmarine depot shipChief of StaffNaval SecretaryMinistry of DefenceDevonportSir Bryan ToddThe London GazetteIwan RaikesJohn ForbesSir Arthur PowerSir John ForbesSir David WilliamsSecond Sea LordSir Desmond Cassidi