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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 ...
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.
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”.
4 de jan. de 2024 · Instead of saving the convoy from disaster, Admiral Pound's order had doomed PQ-17 to destruction. Over the following week, two thirds of the convoy were sunk by German aircraft and U-Boats. It was the biggest loss to a British convoy of the Second World War.
14 de jul. de 2008 · Sir Dudley Pound was the First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy from early in 1939 until just before his death in October 1943. Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was born on the Isle of Wight on 29 August 1877.
Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound GCB OM GCVO 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]
