Indian Navy highlights role played in its development by Old Pangbournian.

An article in the May, 2010, issue of 'Naval Review' by Lt. Cdr Yogesh Athawale of the Indian Navy demonstrates how Brian Goord "in his short but distinguished RIN (Royal Indian Navy) career" contributed substantially to the genesis and growth of anti-submarine warfare in India.

According to the article Goord was appointed to the RIN in 1935. By 1938, with war clouds circling over Europe, he was in a position to improve the very rudimentary anti-submarine training being given in the RIN  following participation in an Royal Navy course in England. Taking full advantage of the situation, Goord went on to develop an ingenious device to help train ASDIC (precursor of SONAR) operatives in the RIN which was later adopted by the RN and the Dominion navies. Later in the Second World War he took over the RIN anti-submarine warfare school and helped to train the first three Indians in this technical area including the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff. Early in 1942 he was instrumental in creating a joint RN/RIN anti-submarine school.

The remainder of Goord's war was spent mostly at sea including taking command of HMIS Godavari (a sloop) which later was involved in a celebrated chase and sinking of a U-boat in the East Indies. This action earned him Goord a DSC. After Indian independence he retired from the RIN and began an extraordinarily varied post-retirement life in Kenya, the UK and New Zealand (see his obituary in 2009 on the OP website)