Peter Buchanan (Royal Navy officer)

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Sir Peter Buchanan
Born14 May 1925
Vice Admiral
Commands heldHMS Scarborough

HMS Endurance

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Buchanan KBE FNI MRIN (14 May 1925 – 23 November 2011) was a Royal Indian Navy and Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary
.

Early life

Born on the

Lieutenant Colonel Francis Henry Theodore Buchanan and Gwendolen May Isobel (née Hunt). He was educated at Malvern College.[2]

His brother Leading Aircraftman James Gilliam Buchanan, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died aged 19 on active service in Arizona, United States in 1943.[2]

Naval career

Buchanan joined the Royal Indian Navy in 1943.

Pacific and was in the region when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[2]

In 1948 Buchanan transferred to the Royal Navy.[2] From 1956 to 1958 he was on the staff of the Britannia Royal Naval College. He served on HMS Birmingham from 1958 to 1960. As Fleet Operations Officer in the Far East from 1963 to 1964 he was Mentioned in Despatches.[3]

From 1965 to 1967 he served on HMS Victorious.[2] Buchanan was given command of HMS Endurance in 1968.[4] He proved that the route now known as the Buchanan Passage can be used to reach Marguerite Bay from the North.[4]

He became Naval Assistant to the

Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe in 1979.[5] He retired in 1982.[6]

Other

Buchanan was admitted as a Younger Brother of

KBE.[7]

In 1996 he served as Master of the

RNLI Selsey Lifeboat Station. A stained glass window commemorating his service was unveiled at the station on 4 October 2017 by his widow Lady (Audrey) Buchanan.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "BUCHANAN - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". Announcements.telegraph.co.uk. 23 November 2011. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Royal Indian Navy (RIN) Officers (1939–1945) : Profile of Sir Peter Buchanan.
  3. ^ a b Fraternity review
  4. ^ a b Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  5. ^ a b Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Whitaker's Almanack 1983
  7. ^ "No. 48212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1980. p. 5.
  8. ^ Guild of Freemen of the City of London
  9. ^ "Selsey Lifeboat Station - News". Selseylifeboats.co.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Events from the Guild". Guild-freemen-london.co.uk. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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Preceded by Naval Secretary
1976–1978 		Succeeded by
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