Alastair Ewing

Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Alastair Ewing KBE CB DSC (10 April 1909 – 19 May 1997) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Ewing joined the Royal Navy in 1923. He served in World War II and was given command of the destroyer HMS Cattistock in 1940. As Captain of the destroyer HMS Offa, he took part in the Commando raid on Vågsøy in western Norway in December 1941 during the Norwegian Campaign and then saw the disintegration of Convoy PQ 17 on its way to Russia as 23 of its 36 ships were lost in July 1942 during convoy work. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. before retiring in 1962.

In retirement he became a yacht broker in Florida.

Family In 1940, he married Diana Archer, and they had a son. Following the death of his first wife, he married Anne Chichester in 1984.