Rear Admiral James Frederick Thomas George "Sam" Salt, CB (19 April 1940 – 3 December 2009) was a senior Royal Navy officer of the late twentieth century.
After an early career on surface vessels in the 1960s serving in the Far East, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, Salt volunteered for the sub-surface duty in which his father had lost his life.
Two Argentinian Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard strike aircraft attacked the vessels using Exocet missiles.
Sheffield was taken in tow, but sank several days later, becoming the first Royal Navy warship to be sunk since the end of the Second World War.
While he was Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff he was responsible for the Royal Navy's planning for the execution of the Gulf War.