Stanley Walter Croucher Pack

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(1904–1977) was an officer in the

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, and an author of several books related to maritime topics. In 1928, while an instructor Commander at

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, he wrote a

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textbook entitled ''The Frequency Departure of Thermionic Oscillators from the L. C. Valve''. Decades later he wrote a book about the college, entitled ''Britannia at Dartmouth''. In 1953 the ''

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'' reported he had been promoted from Instructor Commander to Instructor Captain. Pack was one of the UK representatives when the

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's subcommittees, the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation, when it met in

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, in August 1953. In 1957 he was made a

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