Visitor Helped To Sink Bismarck

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 9

Visitor Helped To Sink Bismarck

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Feb. 15. The captain of the British battleship. Rodney, which helped to sink the 35,000-ton German battleship, the Bismarck, during World War 11, Admiral Sir Frederick DalrympleHamilton, arrived in Auckland today. Sir Frederick DalrympleHamilton owns a property in Scotland near where the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, used to live. Before leaving Scotland to take up his appointment in New Zealand. Sir Bernard Fergusson made Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton promise

to visit him in New Zealand, said the admiral. One of the GovernorGeneral’s staff met Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamil-ton on the Ruahine yesterday and accompanied him to Government House, where the two friends were reunited. During World War I Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamil-ton was commander of a destroyer.

Later, he became commander of the 10th Cruiser Squadron and second in command of the Home Fleet. He went on Russian convoy duty and assisted in D-Day operations. In May, 1945, he was appointed Vice-Admiral at Malta and the central Mediterranean.

Sir Frederick DalrympleHamilton was knighted in that year, He later became flag officer for Scotland and then admiral commanding the naval mission in Washington. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1950.