Captain Russell Hamilton McBean DSO DSC (3 March 1894[1] – 30 September 1963) was an officer in the Royal Navy and was one of the men who took part in the Raid on Kronstadt in August 1919.

He was a sub-lieutenant of the destroyers HMS Racehorse and HMS Lookout during the first part of the First World War[2] During the First World War he was at Jutland and then became the second young officer to volunteer for service in Coastal Motor Boats (May 1916), and was with the force that led the attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend.

At the second Ostend Raid during the night of 9/10 May 1918, Lieutenant McBean commanded and helmed CMB No.25, which escorted HMS Vindictive up to the entrance, torpedoed the western and eastern piers and engaged with enemy machine guns at point blank range.

[6] The entry in the London Gazette reads: Two safety pins in presentation cases, from torpedoes fired from McBean's CMBs during the Ostend and Kronstadt raids, were donated to the Imperial War Museum by a member of his family.

[8][9] After the Great War, McBean was promoted to lieutenant-commander and held command of HMS Vindictive at Chatham, part of the Reserve Fleet.