Captain S P Asquith MA OBE Royal Navy

Born and educated in West Yorkshire, Simon Asquith joined the Royal Navy as a Warfare Officer in 1990 . Following initial office r training at BRNC Dartmouth, he completed a BA(Hons) in Maritime Defence, Management and Technology at the Royal Naval Engineering College Manadon. He qualified as a submariner in 1995 and a series of junior officer’s appointments followed where he serve d in diesel electric, nuclear attack and strategic deterrent submarines. This period included a 2 year exchange with the Netherlands’ Submarine Service.

He successfully completed the Submarine Command Course or ‘Perisher’ in 2003 and, following an appoi ntment as the Executive Officer of HMS Turbulent , he became the Submarine Warfare Officer’s Career Manager in 2005. In this role he provided personnel support and career management to 250 Submarine Warfare Officers.

On promotion to Commander in February 2008 he completed a short appointment at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre where he progressed work on Joint and Maritime Operational Concepts. Between 2008 and 2011 he c ommanded the Trafalgar Class SSN H MS Talent where he conducted two deploy ments, the first as part of Taurus 09 Task Group and the second on a N ation al deployment East of Suez . A grad uate of ACSC 15, from 2012 until 2014 he was the Maritime Force Generator in the Operations Directorate of the Ministry of Defence . Promoted to C aptain , he took C ommand of HMS Portland as Captain Anti - Submarine Warfare in September 2014.