Vice Admiral Sir Jonathan James Richard Tod KCB CBE (born 26 March 1939) is a former

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officer who became Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet.

Naval career

Educated Gordonstoun and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Tod joined the Royal Navy in 1959 and qualified as a naval pilot. He went on to command the frigate HMS ''Brighton'' and the destroyer HMS ''Fife''.Navy's bicentennial marred by pull-out
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, Tod served in the Cabinet Office during the

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for which he was awarded the CBE and after that commanded the aircraft carrier HMS ''Illustrious'', succeeding Vice-Admiral Peter Woodhead, (in which Tod led the operation to recover survivors following the

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of the Odyssey Oil Platform in 1988). He became Flag Officer Portsmouth in 1989 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet in 1994 before retiring in 1997. In October 1965 Tod ejected from a Hawker Hunter following a mid-air collision during an air combat exercise in Scotland. In March 1967 he flew a Blackburn Buccaneer from RNAS Lossiemouth as part of the bombing operation to break up and release oil from the tanks of the which had run aground off the coast of Cornwall.

References

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