Stingray (1964 TV series) "P.W.O.R." – short for "Proceeding With Orders Received". "Stingray" is piloted by the square-jawed Captain Troy Tempest. He is paired with Southern navigator Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan, nicknamed "Phones" for his role as "Stingray"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s hydrophone operator. Troy and Phones board "Stingray" by sitting on twin injector seats in Marineville's stand-by lounge, which are lowered into the vessel via injector tubes and then clamped into place. They answer to the crusty "hoverchair"-bound Commander Sam Shore, whose daughter, Lieutenant Atlanta Shore, takes shifts in the Marineville control tower and is enamoured of Troy. At the start of the series, the WASP learns
Kenneth Tempest Kenneth Tempest Kenneth Tempest DFC (9 April 1922 – 2 June 2015) was a Royal Air Force navigator with 139 Squadron during the Second World War flying Mosquitos. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. After the war he trained as a pilot and flew with BOAC in the Bristol Britannia and the VC10. Kenneth Tempest was born in Cawnpore (now Kanpur), India, on 9 April 1922. He was educated at Keighley Boys' Grammar School and his first job was with Lloyds Bank which he quickly left to join the Royal Air Force. Tempest first trained as