Admiral Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the First and Second World Wars.
Admiral Pridham-Wippell at his desk in Dover in 1943
Memorial in Exeter Cathedral
The Danzig crisis of 1932 was an incident between the Free City of Danzig and Poland concerning whether the Polish government had the right to station warships in Danzig harbour, together with Poland's claim to represent Danzig with foreign powers. The incident was sparked on 14 June 1932 when a squadron of British destroyers visited Danzig and was greeted by the Polish destroyer Wicher which had entered Danzig harbour without the permission of the Senate of the Free City. The incident led to the Danzig authorities reluctantly ceding the right of Poland to station its warships in Danzig, the renewal of the agreement governing Polish rights in the Free City and within Poland a shift towards navalism.
The Polish destroyer Wicher
HMS Campbell in 1942. In 1932, the visit of the Campbell to Danzig was the immediate cause of the crisis.
The Wicher