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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jutland with notable success, contributing to the sinking of the German cruiser ...
Dudley Pound. Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound GCB OM GCVO (Ventnor, 29 de agosto de 1877 – Londres, 21 de outubro de 1943) foi um oficial da Marinha Real Britânica. [ 1] . Ele serviu durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial como um dos comandantes da Frota aliada durante a batalha da Jutlândia. [ 2] .
The First Sea Lord Admiral Dudley Pound, acting on information that German ships, including the German battleship Tirpitz, were moving to intercept, ordered the covering force based on the Allied battleships HMS Duke of York and USS Washington away from the convoy and told the convoy to scatter.
- 27 June-10 July 1942
- German victory
- Arctic Ocean
4 de jan. de 2024 · Learn how Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord, ordered the scattering of convoy PQ-17 in 1942, leading to its devastation by German forces. Watch a video and explore the causes, consequences and controversies of this naval disaster.
By Keith Milton. First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound stopped tapping his pencil on the oaken desk and slowly leaned backward in the oversized leather chair. With his head now fully back, he closed his eyes and tried to relax his body even more. He had a tough decision to make about arctic convoy “PQ 17”.
6 de fev. de 2021 · By James Brun. IN LEWIS Gilbert’s 1960 film, Sink the Bismarck!, the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, remarks on the type of commander needed to win the Battle of the Atlantic: “I want a man who’s cold. I’d like a man with no heart at all, no soul. Just an enormous brain.
Pound now believed the worst—Tirpitz was at sea, streaking right for PQ-17. If that was the case, the convoy would have to scatter. Based on wholly negative evidence, Pound overruled his men in London and at sea. At 9:11 pm, he signaled, “Most immediate. Cruiser force withdraw westward at high speed.” At 9:23, he signaled, “Immediate.
