Nigel Berlyn

Rear Admiral Nigel Richard Benbow Berlyn AO (born 1934) was a senior Royal Australian Navy officer who was General Manager of the Garden Island Dockyard (as Rear-Admiral) 1984-1987.

Naval career

Born 26 August 1934, Berlyn joined the Royal Navy in 1952. He spent 1964-1965 on on exchange to the RAN as Practical Training Co-ordinator at HMAS Nirimba.

He joined the RAN in 1965 and served as Mechanical Engineering Officer on HMAS Vampire from 1966 to 1967. Between 1967 and 1970, he was Senior Project Planner at Garden Island Dockyard before serving, as Mechanical Engineering Officer aboard HMAS Melbourne during 1971 and 1972.

He attended Joint Services Staff College in 1973 before serving as Programming & Planning Manager of the DDL Project, then Director of the Adelaide class guided missile frigate^[1] Acquisition Project.

He retired from the RAN in 1987, having served as General Manager of the Garden Island Dockyard (as Rear-Admiral) 1984-1987.

Honours & awards

• Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1987^[2]
• Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 1978

References and notes

1. ^ Adelaide Class FFG, www.navy.gov.au
2. ^ Honours List, 7 June 1987, Sydney Morning Herald OFFICERS IN THE MILITARY DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (AO)
   Rear Admiral Nigel Richard Benbow Berlyn, AM, RAN, Potts Point, NSW, for service to the Royal Australian Navy as a Marine Engineering Officer, particularly as the General Manager of Her Majesty's Australian Naval Dockyard, Garden Island.

Sources

• http://www.navy.gov.au/Nigel_Richard_Benbow_Berlyn