* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

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

The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.

The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.

Admiral Sir Edward Seymour sent reinforcements to Peking, but they were insufficient to defend the Legation.

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

Admiral Sir Dudley Pound commented: ' Who wants these sinkers-of-hospital-ships and machine-gunners-of-sailors-in-the-water at Admiral Beatty's funeral anyway?

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 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

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

However, he was wrecked on HMS Victoria when it collided with HMS Camperdown ( the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ) off Tripoli on 22 June 1893 ; the Admiral, 21 officers and 350 men drowned.

* Admiral Sir Desmond Dreyer, 1965 – 1967

" The College was the fruit of Kurt Hahn's vision and the work of men such as the founding Headmaster Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare, Antonin Besse, who donated St Donat's Castle for the College's premises, and Air Marshal Sir Lawrance Darvall.

The combination of rigid hull and large inflatable buoyancy tubes seems to have been first introduced in 1967 by Tony and Edward Lee-Elliott of Flatacraft, and patented by Admiral Desmond Hoare in 1969 after research and development at Atlantic College in Wales.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

* Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Lewin 1977 – 1979

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach 1979 – 1982

* Admiral Sir Gordon Tait, 1977 – 1979

* Admiral Sir Richard Clayton, 1975 – 1979

* Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, 1979 – 1981

* The last Grand Master of the Order, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( 1900 – 1979 ), was killed by the Provisional IRA on 27 August 1979.

* The last Grand Master of the Order, Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( 1900 – 1979 ), died on 27 August 1979.

As the Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1979 to 1984, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah was automatically designated under constitutional provisions as the Supreme Commander of the Malaysian Armed Forces, holding the rank of the Field Marshal of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, Admiral of the Royal Malaysian Navy and Field Marshal of the Army.

In 1979, Admiral Doran attended the Indian Defense Services Staff College in Wellington, India, where he earned a Master's Degree in Defense Studies.

The decoration was established in March 1979 by Admiral John B. Hayes.

# Admiral Mohammad Shariff ( March 23, 1975 – March 21, 1979 )

# Admiral Karamat Rahman Niazi ( March 22, 1979 – March 23, 1983 )

Rear Admiral William Herman Brockman, Jr. ( 18 November 1904 – 2 January 1979 ) served in the United States Navy during World War II.

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach, Mar 1977 – May 1979

* Admiral Sir James Eberle, Mar 1979 – Apr 1981

* Ha, Tae-hung ( translated by ) 1979 Imjin Changch ' o: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin's Memorials to Court.

* Rear Admiral Sir Leslie Townsend, KCVO CBE 1979 – 1982

* Draper Kauffman ( 1911 – 1979 ) Rear Admiral, US Navy

Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 6 July 1979, he went on to be Chief of the Defence Staff in September 1979 and served as a member of the War Cabinet during the Falklands War giving Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher his resolute support when losses began to be suffered.