Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton

Dalrymple-Hamilton was the second son of Col Hon. North de Coigny Dalrymple-Hamilton, MVO, of Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire,[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersD.html Unit Histories] and the grandson of the 10th Earl of Stair. Sir North Dalrymple-Hamilton was his elder brother.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir N. Dalrymple-Hamilton |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=17 February 1953 |page=11 }}

He joined the Royal Navy in 1905 and served in World War I. Promoted to captain in 1931, he was appointed Captain (Destroyers) for the 4th Destroyer Flotilla in 1933 and Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1936.

From 1939 to 1941 he commanded the battleship {{HMS|Rodney|29|6}}[http://www.uboat.net/allies/commanders/34.html U-boat.net] and while in command he took part in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Meanwhile, his son, North Dalrymple-Hamilton, served in a gun director position aboard King George V. After the battle Frederick told his son: "You are lucky to have seen a show like that after only being in the Navy for 18 months – I’ve had to wait 35 years."{{cite web|title=Capt North Dalrymple-Hamilton – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11053695/Capt-North-Dalrymple-Hamilton-obituary.html|work=The Telegraph|location=London|date=24 August 2014|accessdate=24 August 2014}}

He was appointed Admiral Commanding, Iceland in 1941 and Naval Secretary in 1942. He became Commander of the 10th Cruiser Squadron and Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet in 1944 flying his flag in {{HMS|Belfast}} in June 1944 during the D-Day landings at Normandy. A few months later commanded the escorts of several Arctic convoys as well as the British forces involved in the inconclusive Action of 28 January 1945.{{cite book|last=Roskill|first=S.W.|title=The War at Sea 1939–1945. Volume III: The Offensive Part II|year=1961|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|location=London|oclc=464447827|pages=252–254}} He went on to be Vice-Admiral Malta and Flag Officer, Central Mediterranean in April 1945.

After the War he was appointed Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland and then, from 1948, Admiral at the British Joint Services Mission in Washington D. C.

Frederick Dalyrmple is descended from the 10th Earl of Stair. His father was the Hon. North de Coigny Dalrymple-Hamilton, the Earl's second son and his mother was Marcia Liddell, daughter of The Hon. Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavious Liddell and Frederica Elizabeth Lane Fox.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

He married Gwendolen Peek in 1918. They had one son and two daughters. Both had royal godparents: North was a godson of Edward VIII and daughter Graeme Elizabeth was a goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Dalrymple-Hamilton's home was at Clady House in Cairnryan, Wigtownshire where he and Gwendolen raised their children.{{Cite web|title=Capt North Dalrymple Hamilton|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13172283.capt-north-dalrymple-hamilton/|access-date=2021-02-23|website=HeraldScotland|language=en}}

Their son Captain North Edward Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton (1922–2014) followed his father into the Royal Navy and became executive officer of the Royal Yacht Britannia.{{cite web|title=Capt North Edward Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton of Bargany, CVO, MBE, DSC 1921–2014|date=9 July 2014 |url=http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/capt-north-edward-frederick-hamilton.html|publisher=Peerage News}} Lady Dalrymple-Hamilton died in 1974.

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• Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismarck Ludovic Kennedy
• HMS Rodney, Iain Ballantyne, Pen & Sword Books, Yorkshire, 2008, {{ISBN|978 1 84415 406 7}}
• Killing the Bismarck, Iain Ballantyne, Pen & Sword Books, Yorkshire, 2010, {{ISBN|978 1 84415 983 3}}
• Reports of Proceedings 1921–1964, Rear Admiral G.G.O. Gatacre, Nautical Press & Publications, Sydney, 1982, {{ISBN|0 949756 02 4}}

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