Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ...

Frederick Peter Scourse CB

MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

FREng (born 23 June 1944) is a former Royal Navy officer who became Acting Controller of the Navy. He was appointed a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

in 2000.

Naval career

Scourse joined the Royal Navy in 1962 and chose to specialize in

submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

s.Rear Admiral Fred Scourse CB MBE MA FREng FIEE
DV-MS He was appointed assistant director for the Trident submarine programme and then Head of Reactor Safety before becoming Military Assistant to the Chief of Defence Procurement in 1987. He went on to be Director-General of Surface Weapons in 1988. In 1996 he was appointed Acting Controller of the Navy and Director-General of Surface Ships; he retired in 1997. In retirement he became Nuclear Weapons Safety Advisor to the

Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in states ...

as well as a consultant to the Office of Government Commerce.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scourse, Frederick 1944 births Living people Royal Navy rear admirals Royal Navy submariners Companions of the Order of the Bath Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Members of the Order of the British Empire