Captain John Fenwick Hutchings, CBE, DSO (17 May 1885 – 20 September 1968) was a British Royal Navy officer who served in the First and Second World Wars.

[1] This period in command was marred on 31 July 1918, when two of her crew, George Booker and Michael Jordan, drowned.

Inclined to be disobedient at times, not with the intention of being insubordinate, but through failing to appreciate when an order should be obeyed implicitly and when discretion should be exercised.

Most of his work after the war involved research and development efforts related to submarines at HMS Dolphin.

[2] On 20 November 1939, Hutchings was recalled to active duty as commander of HMS Forte, the Royal Navy base at Falmouth, Cornwall.

On 10 June he became the commander of HMS Drake, the naval base at Devonport, Devon, with additional duty as the Defence Liaison Officer Plymouth and Falmouth Areas on staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches.

[1] On 10 July 1943,[2] he became the Senior Naval Officer in commander of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel.

[12] Hutchings was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 28 November 1944 for "distinguished services in operations which led to the successful landing of Allied Forces in Normandy.