Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom was vested in the Sovereign from 1964 to 2011.

Flag of the Lord High Admiral

The office of Admiral of England ( or Lord Admiral and later Lord High Admiral ) was created around 1400, though there were before this Admirals of the Northern and Western Seas.

Operational control of the Navy remained the responsibility of the Lord High Admiral, who was one of the nine Great Officers of State.

In 1628, Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission and control of the Royal Navy passed to a committee in the form of the Board of Admiralty.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

* Lord High Admiral of Scotland

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

* 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty ( b. 1726 )

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

In 1655, Oliver Cromwell dispatched a fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir William Penn, to conquer Santo Domingo.

* James William Augustus Nicholson, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy

* 1944 – William J. Fallon, U. S. Navy Admiral, former U. S. Central Command commander

Both schools are named for Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson.

Cagney's career began winding down, and he made only one film in 1960, the critically acclaimed The Gallant Hours, in which he played Admiral William F. " Bull " Halsey.

* 1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.

The soothing waters of the hotel's hot spring and the lively social life on Nevis attracted many famous Europeans, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Antigua-based Admiral Nelson, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, ( future William IV of the United Kingdom ), who attended balls and private parties at the Bath Hotel.

However, Bajoran Colonel Kira Nerys, with the assistance of Starfleet Admiral William Ross, forced the Romulans to back down and remove their weapons.

Captain: Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes )

In " All Good Things ...", the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek: Generations, and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship.

Among his colleagues were Admiral Sir William Penn, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Mennes and Sir William Batten.

The program was led by David Peck Todd with the military assistance of Admiral Edward W. Eberle ( Chief of Naval Operations ), with William F. Friedman ( chief cryptographer of the US Army ), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

* January 12 – William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral ( b. 1510 )

* 1960 – 1962 Rear Admiral William D. Irvin, United States Navy

In the 19th century Admiral William Henry Smyth, writing in his nautical lexicon The Sailor's Word-Book, described Friday as

* nickname of William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery ( 1873 – 1967 ), Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet

His brothers included Admiral John Amherst and Lieutenant General William Amherst.

Keefer then convinces Maryk and Keith to join him in presenting their case to Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr ..

When this came to light, in order to prevent his wife and daughter living in destitution, his friend and colleague Bartholomew Sulivan began an Admiral FitzRoy Testimonial Fund which succeeded in getting the government to pay back £ 3, 000 of this sum ( Darwin contributed a further £ 100 ).

* Vice Admiral FitzRoy Henry Lee ( 2 January 1700 – April 1751 ), Commodore Governor of Newfoundland.

* FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ( born 1788 ) was the eighth and youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon.

Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton KG CB ( 22 June 1821 – 4 December 1918 ), styled Lord Augustus FitzRoy before 1882, was the second son of the 5th Duke of Grafton and his wife, Mary Caroline, daughter of Admiral the Hon Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley.

On 1 January 1919, Beatty was promoted to the permanent rank of Admiral, with seniority from 27 November 1916.

On 1 May, he was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ( December 9, 1906January 1, 1992 ) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

Only a few weeks later the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson unexpectedly destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ( 1 – 3 August 1798 ).

The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1, 357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille came into the bay, which they named “ Rade des Tortues ” ( literally meaning " Harbor of the Tortoises ") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.

Grand Master of the naval war of Louis XIV, Admiral Jean Estrées seized Gorée on November 1, 1677.

* January 1 – Arleigh Burke, U. S Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations ( b. 1901 )

* August 1 – Battle of the Nile ( near Abu Qir ): Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys ; Nelson himself is wounded in the head.

He loaned Group 1, under Lieutenant Choate, to Admiral Nimitz, as a way to introduce the OSS into the Pacific theater.

Within a month Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Admiral Gaspard de Coligny had raised an army of 1, 800.

On August 1, 1942, Lieutenants Nemesio Aguirre, Fernández Bakaicoa and Juanna received a Basque-coded message from San Diego for Admiral Chester Nimitz warning him of the upcoming Operation Apple to remove the Japanese from the Solomon Islands.

Also at 1: 55 PM, Admiral Tōgō ordered the hoisting of the Z flag:

In May 1945 Flensburg was the seat of the last government of Nazi Germany, the so called Flensburg government led by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, which was in power from 1 May ( Hitler's death ) until its dissolution on 23 May.

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

The first battle in the Philippine theater was in Manila Bay, where, on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey, commanding the United States Asiatic Squadron aboard the USS Olympia, in a matter of hours, defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón.

Captain William Kiestler, commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard was relieved of duty on July 1, 2010 by order of Vice Admiral Kevin M. McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, after a year on the job because of a loss of confidence in his ability to command .< ref > Sizemore, Bill.

Promoted to vice admiral on 1 June 1917, he brought the cruisers and to San Francisco in early 1918 with 1, 000 cadets, and was received by U. S. Navy Rear Admiral William Fullam.

On March 1, 1942, the Battle of Sunda Strait-part of the larger Battle of the Java Sea-took place when the Allied cruisers HMAS Perth and USS Houston encountered a Japanese amphibious landing force near Bantam commanded by Rear Admiral Kenzaburo Hara, which included a light cruiser and eleven destroyers, four heavy cruisers and a light aircraft carrier.

In Star Trek: Voyager the holodeck was used extensively because ( 1 ) a crew isolated from their homes required more frequent diversion, ( 2 ) the holographic Doctor could, in the early seasons, be located only in the Sick Bay or one of the holodecks, ( 3 ) one of the main characters, Tom Paris, was by nature and calling a writer ( holonovelist ) -- he only joined Star Fleet because his father, Admiral Paris, forced him to.

Following von Spee's success on 1 November 1914 at the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, where his German East Asia Squadron sank the cruisers ( Admiral Cradock's flagship ) and, von Spee's force put into Valparaíso.