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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir William George "Bill" Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS ''Repulse'', when it searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the ''Repulse'' was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS ''Prince of Wales'' in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later aided in the setup of the Mulberry harbours and the Pluto pipelines, a crucial part of the success of Operation Overlord.
==Biography==
Born in Upton-upon-Severn and educated at nearby Hanley Castle Grammar School, Tennant joined the Royal Navy at age 15 in 1905,〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 serving onboard HMS ''Britannia'', eventually specializing in navigation in 1913.〔 He later served in the First World War during the Gallipoli campaign and survived the sinking of his ship at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. After the war, Tennant joined the crew of and his future command, HMS ''Repulse'', during the future King Edward VIII's royal tours in the 1920s.〔 By 1932, Tennant had achieved the rank of Captain.
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