Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral (Royal Navy)

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 Sir (Arthur) Gordon (Voules) Hubback KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 CB

Order of the Bath

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 (11 September 1902 – 25 August 1970) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord

Fourth Sea Lord

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Naval career

Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne

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 and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

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, Hubback served in World War II

World War II

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 at the Plans Division at the Admiralty

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 where he helped plan the Norwegian Campaign

Norwegian Campaign

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. After serving in various ships from 1940, he was appointed Commanding Officer

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 of HMS Gregale in March 1943. In July of that year he joined the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet and in July 1944 he became Assistant Director of Plans at the Admiralty.

After the War he was given command of the cruiser

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 HMS Glasgow

HMS Glasgow (C21)

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 before being appointed Commodore Superintendent at Malta

Malta

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 in 1947 and then Commodore at the Royal Naval Barracks at Lee-on-the-Solent

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 in 1950. He went on to be Admiral Superintendent at HM Naval Base Portsmouth

HMNB Portsmouth

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 in 1951, Director of Dockyards at the Admiralty in 1954 and Fourth Sea Lord

Fourth Sea Lord

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 in 1958.

In retirement he became Managing Director of the newly privatised

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 Bailey's Dockyard in Malta

Malta

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