David Armine Howarth

David Howarth (28 July 1912 – 2 July 1991) was a British naval officer, boatbuilder, historian and author. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he was a radio war correspondent for the BBC at the start of World War II. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. He became involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and ultimately in the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. For his successful efforts in the espionage of the German presence in Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class in the Order of St Olav.

After the war, he wrote several books about the war in general and of specific events in the war.

Howarth died on 2 July 1991 at the age of 78. Following his request before death, his ashes were buried at sea in Lunna Voe, Shetland, near Lunna House, the first base of the Shetland Bus operation.