Death of Richard Pendered, Shark codebreaker at Bletchley Park (fwd)

FYI...


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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:20:36
From: Martin Evans <mhe1000-v9/[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Martin Postranecky FYI <mp-/[email protected]>
Subject: Death of Richard Pendered, Shark codebreaker at Bletchley Park

There is an obituary of Richard Pendered in today's Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/8210654/Richard-Pendered.html

or if the above is too unwieldly, go via:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/

Pendered was one of the mathematicians recruited to the GC&CS codebreakers at
Bletchley Park in 1940. In Hut 8 he made major contributions to breaking the
German Navy's 4-wheel Enigma cyphers, known as "Shark" to the British. He is
also credited with decyphering a message that located the German battlecruiser
SCHARNHORST at sea, resulting in her destruction in the Battle of North Cape.

Martin

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Martin H Evans        mhe1000-v9/[email protected]
      Maritime Museums in Britain and Ireland:
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mhe1000/marmus.htm

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