Bismarck - Portrait of the Men Involved

Lord John Cronyn Tovey
Nationality	British
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet
Born	7 March 1885
Died	11 January 1971
Career
1915 - 1918	Destroyer Commander (Skaggerak battle aboard Onslow) other commands include: Faulknor, Britannia, Majestic, Amphion, Rodney
31 Dec. 1923	Captain
1930 - 1932	Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord
1932 - 1934	Rodney
1935	Flag officer, at royal court
27 Aug. 1935	Rear Admiral
1938 - 1940	Rear Admiral, Destoyers in the Mediterranean
3 May 1939	Vice-Admiral
June 1940	Mediterranean, Chief 7th Cruiser Squadron
20 - 21 June 1940	Mediterranean, British-French operations against Bardia Securing the MA-3 convoys
July 1940	Mediterranean, Second-in-Command, Commander, Force A
2 Dec. 1940 - 8 May 1943	Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet
January 1941	Home Fleet operation against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (Operation "Berlin")
May 1941	Action against Bismarck on battleship King George V
November 1941	Home Fleet, US battle groups Action against suspected Tirpitz outbreak (from Norway) into the Atlantic
March 1942	Polar Sea PQ-12 operation
June - July 1942	Polar Sea QP-13, PQ-17 operations
1943 - 1946	Commander-in-Chief, The Norre Admiral of the Fleet
1945 - 1946	First and Principa Naval at royal court
1948 - 1952	Third Estates Commissioner