Nicholas Copeman
{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral (1906–1969)}}
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|birth_date= 28 February 1906
|birth_place= Brighton, Sussex, England
|death_date= 21 November 1969 (aged 63){{cite news |title= Obituary |work=The Times |date= 26 November 1969 |page= 12 }}
|death_place= Gosport, Hampshire, England
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|rank= Vice Admiral
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|commands= South Atlantic and South America Station
4th Destroyer Squadron
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|battles= Second World War
|awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Vice Admiral Sir Nicholas Alfred Copeman, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB|DSC}} (28 February 1906 – 21 November 1969) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station from 1960 to 1963.
Naval career
Copeman served in the Second World War and was deployed to Norway 1940.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/COPEMAN.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives] In 1948 he was appointed deputy director of Torpedo, Mining and Anti-Submarine Warfare at the Admiralty. He went on to be captain in charge of the 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla in 1950 and joined the Admiralty Interview Board in 1952. He was made Commanding Officer of the torpedo school {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}} in 1953 and commander of the 4th Destroyer Squadron in 1955. He became Vice Controller of the Navy in 1956 and Fourth Sea Lord in 1958. He was made Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station in 1960 and was based in Freetown,[http://www.deddington.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/4400/lion02.pdf HMS Lion] before leaving his post and retiring in 1963.
In retirement Copeman served as Commandant of the Sunningdale Park (Civil Defence) Staff College from 1966 to 1969.
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Category:Royal Navy vice admirals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)