Nigel Malim

Nigel Hugh Malim
CB LVO DL
Born (1919-04-05)5 April 1919
Died 23 August 2006(2006-08-23) (aged 87)
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Navy
Rank Rear Admiral
Other work Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire

Rear Admiral Nigel Hugh Malim CB LVO DL (5 April 1919 – 23 August 2006) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Second World War. He survived his ship being sunk, and was later Commander Engineer on the Royal Yacht Britannia, District Engineer for Scotland, Deputy Director of Marine Engineering, Captain of the Royal Naval Engineering College Manadon and Chief Staff Officer (Technical) to the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Fleet.

In retirement he was a Deputy to the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

Service career

Malim's first ship, HMS Manchester

A native of Barrow upon Humber in North Lincolnshire, and the son of an engineer, Malim joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet on leaving Weymouth College in 1936. In 1941 he was posted to the light cruiser HMS Manchester in Scapa Flow[1][2] and was promoted Lieutenant in July of that year.[3] On 13 August 1942, Manchester was torpedoed by two Italian Navy MS-boats while part of a convoy to Malta during the Battle of the Mediterranean, and the ship was so severely damaged that her Captain decided to sink her.[4] Making it to dry land, Malim found himself on the coast of Algeria, where he was arrested by the forces of Vichy France and interned at Laghouat.[2] He was released in November, thanks to the Allied invasion of French North Africa, and a few weeks later[1] joined the heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk in the North Atlantic.[2] He was next posted to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, from 1943 to 1945.[1]

After the war Malim took an advanced engineering course at Greenock.[2] From 1945 to 1947 he served on HMS Jamaica, then was on the staff of the Royal Naval Engineering College from 1948 to 1950. After service with the Admiralty at Bath (1951–1954), a posting to the carrier HMS Triumph (1954–1956), and another spell at the Admiralty (1956–1958),[1] he joined the Royal Yacht Britannia in 1958 as Commander Engineer. In 1960 he was promoted Captain and became the Navy's District Overseer for Scotland (1960–1962), then Assistant and later Deputy Director of Marine Engineering (1962–1965).

HMY Britannia

He was seconded to the Imperial Defence College in 1966 before serving as Captain of the Royal Naval Engineering College Manadon from 1967 to 1969. He then completed his naval service in Portsmouth as Chief Staff Officer (Technical) to the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Fleet, from 1969 to 1971, with the rank of Rear Admiral, and retired in 1971.[1][2]

After the Navy

Malim retired to Caistor, in his home county of Lincolnshire, and became Chairman of the Western European Ship Repairers Association. He was also managing director of the Humber Graving Dock and Engineering Co. at Immingham from 1972 to 1982[2] and in January 1988 was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire.[5]

Private life

Malim's interests included yachting and while on Britannia he often sailed with the Duke of Edinburgh.[2]

His wife was Moonyeen Maureen Ogilby Malim, and they had two sons, Jeremy and Tim, and a daughter named Marquita. Malim died on 23 August 2006 while on holiday in France.[2] His widow died at the age of 85 in December 2007.[6]

Honours

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 MALIM, Nigel Hugh (b 1919), Rear Admiral at kcl.ac.uk (Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives), accessed 3 July 2013
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rear Admiral Nigel Malim CB LVO DL at marketrasenmail.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013
  3. ↑ London Gazette, Issue 35213 of 8 July 1941, p. 3924
  4. ↑ Gaetano V. Cavallaro, The Beginning of Futility (2009), p. 494
  5. 1 2 London Gazette, Issue 51197 of 13 January 1988, p. 351 (1 of 60 for this issue)
  6. ↑ Mrs Moonyeen Malim (obituary) at jpress.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013
  7. ↑ London Gazette (Supplement) dated 11 June 1960, p. 3977
  8. ↑ London Gazette, Issue 45262 of 31 December 1970, p. 2
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