Michael Pollock was a gunnery officer on the Norfolk when it fought which German capital ship?
Michael Pollock Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (19 October 1916 – 27 September 2006) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1970s. In the Second World War, he was an officer on ships tasked with protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and was gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS "Norfolk" when she fought the German battleship "Scharnhorst" during the Battle of North Cape. He later commanded the aircraft carrier HMS "Ark Royal" , and hosted Ian Smith on HMS "Tiger" . In retirement, he held the position of King of Arms of the Order of the Bath and Gloucester King of Arms, with responsibility for heraldry in Wales.
Action of 16 March 1917 The Action of 16 March 1917 was a naval engagement in which the British armed boarding steamer "Dundee" and the "Warrior"-class armoured cruiser HMS "Achilles" fought and sank the German auxiliary cruiser SMS "Leopard" , which sank with all 319 hands and the six men of a British boarding party.