What position did the man who drowned at a Australian beach named after a naval ship hold?
Harold Holt Harold Edward Holt, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 5 August 190817 December 1967), was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967. He was born in Stanmore, New South Wales and won a scholarship to study law at the University of Melbourne. Holt went into business as a solicitor, during which time he joined the United Australia Party (UAP). In 1935, aged just 27, he was elected to parliament for Fawkner. He held this seat until 1949, when he transferred to Higgins. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months before he disappeared in December 1967 while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.
William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir William George "Bill" Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS "Repulse", when it searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the "Repulse" was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS "Prince of Wales" in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later aided in the setup of the Mulberry harbours and the Pluto pipelines, a crucial part of the success of Operation Overlord.