Harry Weardale

In the short story The Submarine Plans, Sir Harry Weardale was an admiral and the First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy. In the story, he was a guest of Lord Alloway at his country home at Sharples when the plans for the new z-class submarine were stolen.

Sir Harry had a direct and no-nonsense attitude. He disagreed openly with Lord Alloway, his superior, who claimed he saw the shadow of a person cross the terrace and run off. Sir Harry said he had spent a lifetime at sea and would back his eyes against that of any landsman. All that had happened was that Alloway's imagination had played a trick on him.

Hastings took a instant liking to the admiral. He considered him a "square, bluff sailor of the good old-fashioned type."