 He wrote the staff requirement for the Buccaneer strike aircraft and steered it through the Admiralty Board.In 1955, he took command of , a Daring class destroyer deploying in British and Mediterranean waters.Afterwards he commanded a training establishment, RNAS Lossiemouth (HMS "Fulmar"), before taking command of the aircraft carrier in 1959 where he spent the next two years, most of it in the Far East.