MB. A. C. BUTCHER has been succeeded as superintendent engineer by Com- mander (E.) R. A. Gould, O.B.E., R.N.

Commander Gould entered the Navy as a boy artificer in 1915, and saw much service in the last war. He was engin- eer officer in charge on the Renown in the actions with the Graf Spee and the Scharnhorst and Hipper; was in the mine-layer Manxman in the English Channel, Indian Ocean and Mediter- ranean, where he was torpedoed and won his O.B.E.; was in the North Africa landing, saw service in Burma and at Singapore, and was in charge of a thousand artificers in the Fleet Train in the Far East. After the war he was chief of instruction in a training establishment for internal combustion engines, and then was on the staff of H.M. Dockyard at Portsmouth, as technical adviser on all matters con- cerning the engineers of the dock- yard's tugs and motor boats..