RENOWN’S COMMANDER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 9

RENOWN’S COMMANDER

A DISTINGUISHED CAREER HONOUR FROM THE KING By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Saturday. Captain Norton A. Sulivan, commander of the Renown, was to-day received by King George at Buckingham Palace and invested with a Commander ship of the Royal Victorian Order. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. The recipient of the honour is a grandson of Admiral Sir J # tholomew James Sulivan, distinguished m Parana and Baltic campaigns, who was in the Beagle during her voyage with Charles Darwin. As commander, Captain Sulivan was in command of the destroyers Hope, Moon and Marksman which, during the war, were attached to the Grand Fleet and based at Scapa Flow. In the Marksman he served at the Battle of Jutland and was mentioned in despatches. In July, 1917, Captain Sulivan was a duty captain at the Admiralty. He had command of H.M.S. Cordelia (cruiser) in the Atlantic Fleet; he was on the instructional staff at the Royal Naval War College, Greenwich; and he was again at the Admiralty as director of torpedo division, Naval Staff, from which he was appointed to the Renown in July, 1926. He commanded her during “w r orking up” practices with the Atlantic Fleet, culminating in the very successful “concentration” practice done by the battlecruiser squadron on October 30, before the Dominion Prime Ministers. Throughout the recent tour of the Duke and Duchess of York Captain Sulivan was still in command of the Renown. In 1912 he married Gladys Eva, daughter of Mr. Leonard Maton, who belongs to an old Wiltshire family, and he has three daughters.