Nigel Essenhigh
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Admiral Sir Nigel Richard Essenhigh is a former Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2001 to 2002. He served as a navigating officer before commanding the
Admiral Essenhigh (centre) in 2013
The destroyer HMS Nottingham which Essenhigh commanded during the early 1980s
The destroyer HMS Exeter which Essenhigh commanded during the Gulf War
Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce
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Admiral of the Fleet Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce was a British Royal Navy officer who also sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his death in November 2022.
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…was appointed national hydrographer in July 2023. On 13 June 2015, after the previous month's general elections, and together with Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce, Field Marshal Lord Walker and Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Squire, he painted the UK Armed Forces as "feeble" and said "We are appeasing our enemies…
Official portrait, 2019
Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex, where Boyce was educated
The submarine HMS Superb which Boyce commanded in the late 1970s
Lord Boyce in 2015