Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram KCB CVO (24 July 1924 – 30 June 2011) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Loram served in the Royal Navy during World War II[1] and was involved as a junior officer in Operation Tungsten, the action against the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944.

[2] He was also the officer who fired the torpedo which in 1942 scuttled the cruiser HMS Edinburgh, the Royal Navy ship carrying five tons of Russian gold.

[3] He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand in 1946 and Equerry to the Queen in 1954.

[1] That marriage was also subsequently dissolved and he married third Sara Stead-Ellis, who survives him.