The Vice-Admiral of Dorset was responsible for the defence of the County of Dorset, England. As a Vice-Admiral, the post holder was the chief of naval...
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Vice-Admiral of Cumberland Vice-Admiral of Devon Vice-Admiral of Dorset Vice-Admiral of Durham Vice-Admiral of Essex Vice-Admiral of Gloucester Vice-Admiral of Hampshire...
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Hardy Monument (category Monuments and memorials in Dorset)
by public subscription in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, flag captain of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. It has been owned by...
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Manley Laurence Power (redirect from Manley Power (admiral))
Officer (Operations) to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. In 1942, he was given command of HMS Opportune, escorting...
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appointment. The Admiral was chiefly responsible for the command of the navy's fleet that operated in the North Sea and off the English coast out of Yarmouth...
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of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy who was Admiral Nelson's Flag Captain at the Battle of Trafalgar. From the top there are views of the Fleet...
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The Admiral of the North and West or Admiral of the North and Western Fleets was a former senior appointment of the English Navy. The post holder was...
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Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (redirect from Samuel Hood (Rear Admiral))
Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet, KB (27 November 1762 – 24 December 1814), of 37 Lower Wimpole Street, London, was an officer of the Royal Navy...
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England Vice-Admiral Cheshire Vice-Admiral Cornwall Vice-Admiral Cumberland Vice-Admiral Devon Vice-Admiral Dorset Vice-Admiral Durham Vice-Admiral Essex...
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George Frederick Ryves (category Royal Navy admirals)
rising to the rank of rear-admiral. George was born on 8 September 1758, the son of Thomas Ryves, of a long-established Dorset family, by his second wife...
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The Vice-Admiral of Kent was responsible for the defence of the county of Kent, England. As a vice-admiral, the post holder was the chief of naval administration...
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of the fleet Admiral of the Fleet Red Vice-Admiral of the Red Rear-Admiral of the Red Admiral of the White Vice-Admiral of the White Rear-Admiral of the...
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Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB (5 April 1769 – 20 September 1839) was a British Royal Navy officer. He took part in the Battle...
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as Vice-Admiral, so when the Earl of Surrey abandoned the siege of Brest, he was left on station to blockade the port. The English navy patrolled the coast...
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Walter Raleigh (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Cornwall)
the stannaries, that is of the tin mines of Cornwall and Devon, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and vice-admiral of the two counties. He was a member of parliament...
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Wells, and Mary Hoskins, daughter of Richard Hoskins, Esquire, of Beaminster, Dorset. In 1740, Captain (later Admiral) Thomas Smith was stranded in Butleigh...
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Victor Crutchley (category Deputy lieutenants of Dorset)
Admiral Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley VC, KCB, DSC, DL (2 November 1893 – 24 January 1986) was a British naval officer. He was a First World...
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Charles Bullen (category Royal Navy admirals)
spent much of his early childhood in Weymouth, Dorset. His father, John Bullen, also served in the Royal Navy and was the Surgeon General on the North American...
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Durnford School (category Defunct schools in Dorset)
2008, "Dorset days of the spymaster" Accessed 19 May 2009 Obituary, Daily Telegraph 18 July 2006, accessed 11 May 2009 "Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir Gerard...
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William Halsey Jr. (redirect from Admiral Bull Halsey)
Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others...
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of the army or marshals, and so colonel general is the highest rank, usually held by the minister of defense. The corresponding naval rank is admiral...
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Portesham (category Villages in Dorset)
parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated in the Dorset Council administrative area approximately 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Weymouth...
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Reginald Drax (redirect from Admiral Drax)
an Anglo-Irish admiral. The younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany, he was Director of the Royal Naval Staff College, President of the Naval Inter-Allied...
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James Whitley Deans Dundas (category Royal Navy admirals)
Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour on 30 April 1857. Promoted to full admiral on 8 December 1857, he died at Weymouth in Dorset on 3 October 1862...
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NCI Portland Bill (category Jurassic Coast)
station on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The station is situated 50 metres above sea level on the cliff edge, half a mile north of the tip of Portland...
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were in the landed gentry of Shropshire and Staffordshire. A client and son-in-law of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, he became Vice-Admiral under...
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Thomas Macnamara Russell (category Royal Navy admirals)
accompanied Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot's and Sir Henry Clinton's expedition and Russell was with the Raleigh at the Siege of Charleston. The siege and capture of Charlestown...
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Richard Stayner (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Stayner (1625–1662) was an English naval officer who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War and the Interregnum...
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Robert Nelson Ommanney (category Royal Navy admirals of World War I)
appointed rear-admiral in 1908 and vice-admiral in 1913. In 1915, he was placed on the retired list at his own request. He was appointed admiral on the retired...
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Military rank (redirect from Ranks of the army)
the most senior) admiral, vice admiral and rear admiral. In some navies, such as Canada's, the rank of commodore is a flag rank. In the United Kingdom and...
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