Vice Admiral Sir Martin John Connell, is a former senior Royal Navy officer, who served as Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff from 2022 to 2025.
Vice Admiral Connell in 2022
HMS Illustrious (R06)
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HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was the fifth warship and second aircra
Martin Connell (Royal Navy officer)
…Arabian Sea and for interdicting a large shipment of illegal drugs. Promoted to captain on 5 September 2011, Connell took command of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in 2012. He was promoted to Commodore on 10 February 2015, appointed Commander Amphibious Task Group later that year, and then made naval attaché to…
HMS Illustrious in 2012
HMS Illustrious badge
Illustrious (r) and the American USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf in 1998
Illustrious undergoing maintenance at Portsmouth during 2005