Admiral Sir Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, KCB, DSO, DSC (23 June 1910 – 14 April 1990) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.
[1] Hopkins served in the Second World War, initially on the staff of the naval observer school at Ford in Sussex.
[1] Then in 1941, he took command of 830 Naval Air Squadron, sinking large quantities of German shipping in the Mediterranean.
[1] He went on to join the British Air Commission in Washington DC, before becoming an observer with the United States Pacific Fleet.
[2] He was one of the admirals who threatened to resign in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme.