Hugh Mackenzie

Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, (3 July 1913 – 8 October 1996) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Submarines and Chief Polaris Executive. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Mackenzie served in submarines during the Second World War becoming commanding officer of the submarine in March 1941, of in April 1941, of in which he sank of enemy shipping, and of , in which he conducted a single patrol of nearly . Mackenzie went on to be commanding officer of the Underwater Detection Establishment at Portland in 1952, commander of the 1st Destroyer Squadron in June 1954 and Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Submarines in December 1956. After that he became Captain of the Boys' Training Establishment in January 1959, Flag Officer Submarines in September 1961, and Chief Polaris Executive in spring 1963 before retiring in September 1968. Early life Hugh Stirling Mackenzie was born in Inverness, Scotland, on 3 July 1913, the son of Dr Theodore Charles Mackenzie, the medical superintendent of the Inverness District Asylum, and his wife, Margaret (Madge) Wilson. His home, and birthplace, was Ruigh-Ard, the superintendent's residence. He had two older brothers, Charles and Alec, and a younger sister, Margaret. At the age of nine, he was sent to Cargilfield Preparatory School, where his brother Charles was head boy, followed by his brother Alec the next year. In 1924, he appeared before the interview board and was given a medical examination as the first steps to admission to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He was initially rejected on the grounds of deficient eyesight, but his father lodged an appeal, and had his sight examined by an eye specialist in Edinburgh, who declared that it met the Navy's standards. Another test at Queen Anne's Mansions in London cleared the way for him to sit the entrance examinations, which he passed.