Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected biography/3

Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins KBE, CB (1899–1989) was an Australian naval officer who served in World War I and World War II, and who eventually rose to become the First Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and Chief of Naval Staff. Collins was one of the first graduates of the Royal Australian Naval College to attain flag rank. During World War II, he commanded the cruiser HMAS Sydney in the Mediterranean. The latest class of Australian submarine, the Collins class, bears his name. The first of these, HMAS Collins, was launched by his widow in 1993.