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Commander Bernard Peter de Neumann GM RN (18 September 1917 – 16 September 1972) was a British naval officer, convicted pirate (by the French Vichy Government), and latterly harbourmaster at Gravesend in Kent, and then Dockmaster at Tilbury in Essex. 〔(www.academic.ru )〕 De Neumann's action-packed seagoing career included being sunk twice in the space of one month, being charged and convicted of piracy by the Vichy French, and being known as “The Man From Timbuctoo”.〔〔〔〔〔 ==World War II== De Neumann displayed exemplary courage during the Second World War being awarded both the George Medal and the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea for removing a 250 kilogram bomb from deep in the engine-room of HMS ''Tewkesbury'' and dropping it over his ship's side during a Luftwaffe attack off Aberdeen on 1 March 1941.〔〔 HMS ''Tewkesbury'' was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire from a ''U-69'' on May 21, 1941. All of the crew survived and escaped in two boats; de Neumann's lifeboat was picked up by the American freighter SS ''Exhibitor''. He was later transferred to HMS ''Cilicia''. (HMS ''Tewkesburys other lifeboat was rescued by SS ''Antinous'' after 13 days.) HMS ''Cilicia'' arrived at Freetown on 17 June 1941, and de Neumann volunteered as Second Officer aboard the Royal Navy prize vessel HMS ''Criton'' (captured from the Vichy French). HMS ''Criton'' sailed from Freetown for the UK on 19 June 1941, but was intercepted by two Vichy France warships, ''Air France IV'' and ''Edith Germaine'', on 21 June and sunk by gunfire. ''Critons crew were escorted under armed guard to Conakry, where the executive officers were tried and found guilty of piracy by a Vichy French naval court-martial and imprisoned in Timbuktu.〔 They managed to escape, and walked up the Niger River before they were recaptured and returned to Timbuktu. De Neumann was eventually released at the end of December 1942, and arrived back in the UK aboard HMS ''Asturias'' in mid-January 1943. De Neumann received the George Medal from King George VI for his bravery while aboard HMS ''Tewkesbury'' in mid-February 1943. In 1945 he captained the ex-Luftwaffe Flak Ship ''Hilde'' on a voyage to Leningrad, as part of the division of German ships amongst the Allies, returning overland by train and ferry to the UK. He then captained the ''Empire Maymorn'' on her delivery to Georgetown, British Guiana, returning to the UK as Captain of the ''Ariguani'', which had formerly been HMS ''Ariguani'', the very first Fighter Catapult Ship and a forerunner of the Catapult Armed Merchantmen. From 1947 to 1953, he served as a Commander in the Royal Navy, captaining . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter de Neumann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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