Commander P A Stroude Royal Navy
Commander Paul Stroude assumed command of HMS Argyll in May 2010.
He joined the Royal Navy as a University Cadet in 1991 and following basic training, he read Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, graduating in 1995.
Past appointments include: service as the Navigator and Operations Officer of the fishery protection vessel HMS Lindisfarne, tasked with enforcing EU fisheries law out to the UK 200 nautical mile limit in 1998; Navigator on the Type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland, which included winter multinational exercises off northern Norway, and counter-drug patrols in the Caribbean Sea; and as Principle Warfare Officer (U) and then Operations Officer on the Type 22 frigate HMS Cornwall, tasked with protecting the Iraqi offshore oil infrastructure, as part of Operation TELIC in the Arabian Gulf.
