ATLANTIC FLEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 9

ATLANTIC FLEET

NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

VICE-ADMIRAL CHATFIELD British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The Admiralty announces that ViceAdmiral Sir Ernie Chatfield will relieve Admiral Sir Hubert Brand as Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet to-morrow. Other appointments are: RearAdmiral Colin Maclean to relieve RearAdmiral Tweedie as senior naval officer on the Yangtse as from August and Rear-Admiral Dunbar Lee Smith to relieve Rear-Admiral Grace as RearAdmiral Commanding Submarines as from September. Vice-Admiral Chatfield was flag-cap-tain to Admiral Beatty in the Lion and the Queen Elizabeth all through the war, and in the former vessel served in the three principal actions of Heligoland, the Dogger Bank and Jutland. He is the son of a naval officer, the late Admiral A. J. Chatfield. and entered the Britannia in 18S6. Gunnery was his speciality, and he was promoted to captain in 1909 after being commander of the Excellent gunnery school. In 1911-12 he commanded the Medina when that vessel conveyed the King and Queen to India for the Durbar, and was made C.V.O. He was created C.B. for war service in 1914-13, C.M.G. for his conduct at Jutland, and K.C.M.G. on the dispersal of the Grand Fleet in 1919. In the latter year he became Fourth Sea. Lord, in 1920 assistant chief of the Naval Staff, and in 1922-24 he commanded the Third Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean. He was appointed Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy on April 30, 1925, and relinquished that post on October 31, 1928, ______