Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape

Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape GCB, KBE (5 February 1888 – 12 February 1981) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in World War I and saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the War. He also served in World War II initially as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy and then as Second-in-Command and afterwards as Commander of the Home Fleet, leading the force that destroyed the German battleship Scharnhorst. He went on to be First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in which role he assisted in establishing NATO and agreed to the principle that the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) should be an American Admiral, in the face of fierce British opposition.

Bruce Fraser in The Hot War
Lord Fraser was the British First Sea Lord during World War III. In April, 1951, the Soviet Union smuggled an atomic bomb into the Suez Canal, rendering it useless. Lord Fraser immediately called U.S. Secretary of Defense George Marshall to warn him to place the Panama Canal on alert, to no avail: the Panama Canal had already been hit.