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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. ==Naval career== Tait joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1939.〔(Obituary: Admiral Sir Gordon Tait ) The Guardian, 20 June 2005〕 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〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 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.〔 In 1965, he was given command of the frigate HMS ''Ajax'' and the Second Destroyer Squadron in the Far East and in 1967 he took over the submarine depot ship HMS ''Maidstone'' and the Third Submarine Squadron.〔 He was appointed Chief of Staff at Submarine Command in 1969 and made Commander of the Royal Naval College Dartmouth in 1970.〔 In 1972 he became Naval Secretary at the Ministry of Defence and in 1975 he was made Flag Officer, Plymouth and Admiral Superintendent at Devonport.〔 He last appointment was as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1977.〔 He retired in 1979.〔
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