GREAT BRITAIN: Ginger in Command

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Wardrooms and British service clubs echoed with the news last week that "Ginger" Boyle was going to sea again, and in style. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, he will hold the second highest ranking post afloat in Britain's navy.

For four years Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley Boyle has been ashore. Until last year as President of Britain's Annapolis, the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Vice Admiral commanding the Royal Naval War College, he beat navigation, gunnery, seamanship and engineering into hundreds of young men. ''Gingrer" Boyle's nickname comes from the fact that his hair, his eyes, his temper and his voice are all red. At 59 he snorts loudly at the elaborate technical training of modern midshipmen, is proud that he first went to sea at 14, that though he is heir presumptive to the Earl of Cork and Orrery he acquired his entire education aboard the oldtime training ship Britannia.