Gordon Tait (Royal Navy officer)
| Sir Gordon Tait | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 October 1921 |
| Died | 29 May 2005 (aged 83) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
|
| Years of service | 1939 - 1979 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands held |
HMS Teredo HMS Solent HMS Ambush HMS Aurochs HMS Tally-Ho HMS Sanguine HMS Caprice HMS Ajax HMS Maidstone Flag Officer, Plymouth |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Cross |
Admiral Sir (Allen) Gordon Tait, KCB, DSC (30 October 1921 – 29 May 2005) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
Tait joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1939.
He served in World War II with the Arctic convoys from 1939. In 1941 while serving as a junior officer on HMS Nigeria he seized the Enigma cipher settings from the German weather ship Lauenburg. He served in submarines in the Mediterranean and Far East from 1942 to the end of the War earning the Distinguished Service Cross for his skill and courage as a gunnery officer.
He was made Commanding Officer of the submarine HMS Teredo in 1947 and the submarine HMS Solent in 1948 before becoming Aide-de-camp to Lieutenant General Bernard Freyberg, Governor General of New Zealand in 1949. He then commanded successively the submarines HMS Ambush, HMS Aurochs, HMS Tally-Ho and HMS Sanguine. He went on to be Assistant Naval Adviser at the UK High Commission in Canada in 1957 and commanded the destroyer HMS Caprice from 1960.
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