Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral. Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...

Nigel Richard Benbow Berlyn AO (26 August 1934 – 17 February 2022) was a senior

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officer who was general manager of the

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Dockyard from 1984 to 1987.

Naval career

Born on 26 August 1934, he attended the Nautical College, Pangbourne. Berlyn then joined the

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in 1952. He spent 1964–65 on an exchange with the RAN, during which time he served as the Practical Training Co-ordinator at . At the end of his tenure in 1965, he transferred to the RAN and subsequently served as mechanical engineering officer on from 1966 to 1967. Between 1967 and 1970, Berlyn was senior project planner at Garden Island Dockyard before serving as a mechanical engineering officer aboard during 1971 and 1972. In 1973, he attended Joint Services Staff College before serving as programming and planning manager of the DDL Project. He then undertook the role of director of the ''Adelaide''-class guided missile frigate Acquisition Project. He retired from the RAN in 1990, having served as general manager of the Garden Island Dockyard with the rank of rear admiral between 1984 and 1987. Berlyn died in

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, New South Wales on 17 February 2022, at the age of 87.

Honours and awards

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(AO), 1987 * National Medal, 1981 * Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 1978

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berlyn, Nigel 1934 births 2022 deaths Australian military personnel of the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Australian military personnel of the Vietnam War English emigrants to Australia Officers of the Order of Australia People educated at Pangbourne College Royal Australian Navy admirals Royal Navy rear admirals Military personnel from Plymouth, Devon