NAVAL VIKING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 March 1936, Page 7

NAVAL VIKING

SIR WILLIAM FISHER (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. 20th February. Command of the powerful British fleet now assembled in the Mediterranean. and based partly on Gibraltar and partly on Alexandria, is no light responsibility at this time. But the Admiral who shoulders it, Sir William Fisher, is well equipped for the task both physically and otherwise. He is even at the age of sixty, one of the most athletic officers on the active list. Tall and strongly built, on lines that would not he derided in a heavyweight boxing champion, he usually starts his dav with a vigorous scull followed by a swim. He is in no way related to bis famous namesake, the great Admiral Lord Fisher of Dor Tag, but is a brother of Dr 11. A. L. Fisher, who formerly held the post of Minister of Education. The fact that he is known by a nickname indicates that lie is not an unpopular Admiral with the Royal Navy. The talkie film equipment in Malta’s leper hospital was installed out of Admiral Fisher’s own pocket.