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Peter G Hore FRHistS (born 1944) naval officer, historian and obituarist, served a full career in the Royal Navy (1962-2000), spent ten years working in the cinema and television industry (2000-2009) and is a successful biographer and obituarist. One of his books, ''Habit of Victory'', was the Daily Telegraph reader's choice and another book, ''Sydney, Cipher and Search'' was praised for its literary quality and depth of research and shortlisted for the Mountbatten Media Awards. His reasons for becoming an historian are published at British Naval History.


Naval career

Captain Peter Hore served worldwide as a logistics specialist in the
British Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Fra ...
, including exchange service in the United States Navy (1964), and two tours of duty in NATO's
Standing Naval Force Atlantic Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) is one of NATO's standing naval maritime immediate reaction forces. SNMG1 consists of four to six destroyers and frigates. Its role is to provide NATO with an immediate operational response capability. Hi ...
(1972-3). During his Navy service he qualified as an interpreter in Spanish in 1968, interpreter in Swedish in 1970 and linguist in Cantonese in 1986. During the 1982 Falklands War he was the Joint Logistics Commander on Ascension Island, and he has since had the unusual distinction of both having helped to direct the Royal Navy's applied research programme (1992-4) and having headed its non-technical research programme (1997-2000). From 1997-2000 he was Head of Defence Studies during the British government's
Strategic Defence Review The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was a British policy document produced in July 1998 by the Labour Government that had gained power a year previously. Then Secretary of State for Defence, George Robertson, set out the initial defence policy of ...
.


Public Appointments

He is a former Vice President of the Royal Navy Museum and was chairman of its Curatorial Working Party (now the
National Museum of the Royal Navy The National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single non-departmental public body for the museums of the Royal Navy. With venues across the United Kingdom, the museums detail the history of the Royal Navy operating o ...
). He has been a trustee of
The Naval Review ''The Naval Review'' was first published in February 1913 by a group of eight Royal Navy officers. They had formed a naval society "to promote the advancement and spreading within the service of knowledge relevant to the higher aspects of the na ...
, a member of the council of the
Navy Records Society The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 as a scholarly text publication society to publish historical documents relating to the history of the Royal Navy. Professor Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key lea ...
, a member of the board of the
Society for Nautical Research The Society for Nautical Research is a British society that conducts research and sponsors projects related to maritime history worldwide. Founded in 1910, the Society initially encouraged research into seafaring, ship-building, the language and ...
and chairman of its Research, Technical and Programmes Committee. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and was elected a corresponding member of the
Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences The Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskapet, KÖMS), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. The Society is an independent organization and a forum for navy and defence i ...
. He is also a Chartered Member of the
Chartered Institute of Linguists Founded as the Institute of Linguists in 1910, the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) received its Royal Charter in 2005, and is a professional association for language professionals. CIOL supports linguists throughout their careers, and pro ...
.


Cinema and Television

In 2000-09 he was Chief Executive of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, a multi-million £ casework charity open to everyone behind the camera in British film and television industries. The charity raises funds principally through the Royal Film Performance. He retired as CEO in November 2009.


Written works

Peter Hore is the editor or author of many reviews, articles and books including three biographies, numerous obituaries and several books on naval history and strategy. He is recognized at Historic Naval Fiction as an established author. In 2009 his book ''Sydney, Cipher and Search'', an account of his ten-year search through the archives, interviews with survivors, and the breaking of a German wartime code, solved the mystery of the disappearance in 1941 of the Australian cruiser
HMAS Sydney (D48) HMAS ''Sydney'', named after the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three modified ''Leander''-class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS ''Phaeton'', the cruiser was purchased by the ...
. ''Sydney, Cipher and Search'' was awarded the Sir Robert Craven Trophy. a certificate for literary merit from the
Maritime Foundation The Maritime Foundation is a registered British charity that promotes maritime interests in the United Kingdom. History In 1981, British merchant shipping interests founded two complementary organizations, the British Maritime League, a membersh ...
at the
Mountbatten Maritime Prize The Mountbatten Maritime Award is awarded annually by the Maritime Foundation (formerly the British Maritime Charitable Foundation) to the author of a distinguished publication that has made a significant contribution to the maritime history of t ...
awards, and was nominated for the Anderson Medal award of the
Society for Nautical Research The Society for Nautical Research is a British society that conducts research and sponsors projects related to maritime history worldwide. Founded in 1910, the Society initially encouraged research into seafaring, ship-building, the language and ...
. He is associate editor and book review editor of the influential monthly magazine ''Warships International Fleet Review'', was an op-ed writer on defence and international affairs for Newsday in New York, and has written over half a million words in some 600 obituaries for the
London Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fou ...
. He is a consultant and contributor to the authoritative
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...
. and some examples of his contributions can be referenced here: * Dunlop, Samuel Clarke (1922–2008) * Le Bailly, Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland (1915–2010) * Tippet, Sir Anthony Sanders (1928–2006). Recent books include ''Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate''; ''Nelson’s Band of Brothers: Their Lives and Memorials'', containing a selection of rare illustrations and the biographies of all the officers who commanded under Horatio Nelson at his three great battles; and ''HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson’s Trafalgar Fleet'', a history of
HMS Pickle (1800) HMS ''Pickle'' was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named ''Sting'', of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to use as a tender on the Jamaica station. ''Pickle'' was at the Battle of Trafalgar, ...
and her captain at the
Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...
,
John Richards Lapenotière Captain John Richards Lapenotière (1770 – 19 January 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer who, as a lieutenant commanding the tiny topsail schooner HMS ''Pickle'', observed the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, participated in the resc ...
. His latest book is ''Lindell’s List'', the life and times of a group of American and British agents who were imprisoned by the Germans in the Second World War and rescued by the Swedish Red Cross from the ‘women’s hell’, a concentration camp at Ravensbrück, concentration camp, north of Berlin. Peter Hore has contributed more than 1000 obituaries to the Daily Telegraph on Special Forces and members of the
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, and maritime subjects including British and overseas naval officers, men and women, Royal Marines, Merchant Navy officers, yachtsmen, life-boatmen, naval architects and shipping magnates. Each obituary is on average about 1,000 words long, highly factual and based on interviews and archival research. See examples here:


Books

A partial bibliography is on Amazon. * With Iain Ballantyne, 'Submarine, 1901-2001' (St Leonards-on-Sea: HPC, 2001) * With A. Bentley-Buckle, 'Through Albert's Eyes' (Dunbeath: Whittles, 2013) * (Editor) 'Training or Education: A Naval Dilemma over Three Centuries', in Hudson Papers Vol.1 (Ministry of Defence, 2001) * With Derek Allen, 'News of Nelson' (Brussels: Seff Editions, 2005) * With Eric Grove, 'Dimensions of Seapower: Strategic Choice in the Modern World' (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1998) * 'Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in The Naval Review' (London: Seaforth, 2012) * 'Nelson's Band of Brothers: Their Lives and Memorials' (London: Seaforth, 2015) * 'Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land' (London: Chatham in association with National Maritime Museum, 2000) * 'The Genesis of Naval Thinking since the End of the Cold War' (London: Maritime Strategic Studies Institute, 1999) * 'A Myth Too Many', The Trafalgar Chronicle, 22 (2012) * 'Battleships' (London: Lorenz, 2004) * 'British Submarine Policy from St Vincent to Arthur Wilson', in 100 Years of the Trade, 1st edn (Lancaster: CDISS, 2001) * 'Every Dog Shall Do His Duty', The Trafalgar Chronicle, 20 (2010) * 'HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar' (Stroud: The History Press, 2015) * 'John Richards Lapenotiere, HM Schooner Pickle and Their Fifteen Minutes of Fame', Mariner's Mirror, 91 (2005) * 'Lord Melville and the Secret Steam Plan', The Mariner's Mirror, 86 (2000), 157-172 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2000.10659236 * 'Maritime Aviation: Light and Medium Aircraft Carriers into the Twenty First Century' (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1999) * 'Nelson, Nesbit and Nevis', The Kedge Anchor, March (2011) * 'Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist and Socialist' (London: Cass, 2003) * 'Royal Navy and Royal Marines Operations, 1964 -1996' (London: Maritime Strategic Studies Institute, 1998) * 'Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War' (Rendlesham: Seafarer Books, 2009) * 'The Fleet Air Arm and British Naval Operations over Norway and Sweden: Part 1 Autumn of 1940', Forum Navale, Stockholm, 2012 * 'The Fleet Air Arm and British Naval Operations Over Norway and Sweden: Part II Operation Paul the Plan of Attack on Iron-Ore Exports From Neutral Sweden', Forum Navale, Stockholm, 2014 * 'Operation Paul – the Fleet Air Arm attack on Luleå in 1940'. http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/fn_split/fn70_a04.pdf * 'The Habit of Victory' (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005) * 'The Logistics Miracle of Ascension Island', in The Falklands Conflict 20 Years on. (Cass: London, 2005) * With Mervyn Wingfield, 'Wingfield At War' (Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing Company, 2012) * 'Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrück'. Published September 2016.


In addition

Numerous newspaper and magazine articles, including regular features and op-ed articles for ''Warships International Fleet Review'', the ''Kedge Anchor'' and ''Trafalgar Chronicle''. Since 2015 he has been the editor of the ''Trafalgar Chronicle'' 1805 Club council member profiles
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The Naval Review ''The Naval Review'' was first published in February 1913 by a group of eight Royal Navy officers. They had formed a naval society "to promote the advancement and spreading within the service of knowledge relevant to the higher aspects of the na ...
, The Linguist,
Mariner's Mirror ''The Mariner's Mirror'' is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1911 and is abstracted and indexed by Scopus. It is published in partnership with Taylor & Francis. The ''M ...
, and is Series editor for ''The British Navy at War and Peace''.


References


External links


Mountbatten Award

Anderson Medal

Lindell's List website
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