* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

In April of that year, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison personally selected Lieutenant Commander Roy Marlin " Butch " Voris, a World War II fighter ace, to assemble and train a flight demonstration team, naming him Officer-in-Charge and Flight Leader.

The Navy stated that one of the individuals was a man and the other a woman, one a Marine and the other from the Navy, and that Rear Admiral Mark Guadagnini, chief of Naval air training, was reviewing the situation.

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

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.

* Rear Admiral CB Layman

* 1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

* 1938 – Fred Mifflin, Canadian Rear Admiral and politician

Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto tried to organize a coup on August 7, 2008, but was pre-empted and arrested ; however, he managed to escape the country.

After Army chief of staff General Antonio Indjai was reported to have been arrested under the orders of navy chief Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, his troops freed him while Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior went to seek asylum at the Angolan embassy.

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

Both schools are named for Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson.

On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.

The first appointee was Rear Admiral Karl Eduard Heusner, followed shortly by Rear Admiral Friedrich von Hollmann from 1890 to 1897.

* Battle of Heligoland Bight ( Rear Admiral Leberecht Maass )

After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.

* Rear Admiral

The current Commander in Chief of the Lithuanian Navy is Rear Admiral Kęstutis Macijauskas.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

The Western Task Force ( aimed at Casablanca ) comprised American units, with Major General George Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt heading the naval operations.

Truman continued to rely on a succession of personal White House advisers ( George Elsey, Rear Admiral Robert Dennison, and William Averell Harriman ) to coordinate for him major foreign policy matters.

Dahlgren, took command of the South Pacific Squadron from Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, in 1867.

At the start of World War II, George returned to active military service in the rank of Rear Admiral, briefly serving on the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty.

During the Spanish-American war of 1898, Cámara's Flying Relief Column was a naval task force of Spain's most powerful warships, under the command of Rear Admiral Manuel de la Cámara, to relieve Spanish forces in Manila after the defeat of Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón by the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Patterson had known Grant since 1852 ; Patterson's brother-in-law David Dixon Porter, married to Patterson's sister George Ann, was the highest-ranking Admiral in the US Navy ; and Patterson's brother Thomas H. Patterson was commander of the Washington Navy Yard ( 1873-1876 ) before becoming the Rear Admiral in command of the Asiatic Squadron ( 1877-1880 ).

* Rear Admiral George Dundas, 1830 – 1834

* Rear Admiral Sir George Elliot 1835 – 1837

* Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour 1841 – 1844

* Photograph of Rear Admiral George Henry Preble from the Maine Memory Network

He commanded Baltimore ( C-3 ) in Rear Admiral George Brown's squadron off the coast of Chile in 1891.

At Schley's request, because of the charges made against him in the book, a court of inquiry was opened on September 12, 1901, composed of Admiral George Dewey, Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham and Rear Admiral Francis Munroe Ramsay, which investigated Schley's conduct before and during the Battle of Santiago.

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Belknap, in honor of Rear Admiral George Eugene Belknap.

In 1913, he became Commodore of the Royal Naval Barracks in Chatham, England, and in 1913 and 1914, he was aide-de-camp to King George V. In 1916, during World War I, he served as second-in-command of the 1st Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland as Rear Admiral ; his flagship was Colossus.

A retired George F. Elliot is on the left in the back row in this photograph taken with 13 retired United States Navy Rear Admiral ( United States ) | rear admirals ca.

* Fatso O ' Rear – George Mathews

In that year, he was appointed captain of, the flagship of Rear Admiral George Bowyer in the Channel Fleet.

Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson was the first female NFO to command a warship, the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan ( LHD-5 ), and the first female naval officer to command an aircraft carrier strike group, Carrier Strike Group Two, aboard the USS George H. W.

Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U. S. Navy, navigator of the ski-equipped R4D in which Rear Admiral George J. Dufek made the first aircraft landing at the geographic South Pole, on October 31, 1956.

The Superintendent of the Naval Academy was in those days Commander George P. Upshur, and Parker's primary instructor in naval warfare was Lieutenant John A. Dahlgren ( who would later become a Rear Admiral ).

In 1991, GPN released five episodes from the first two seasons on VHS (" The Problem of the Missing Baseball ", " The Trial of George Frankly ", " The Problem of the Dirty Money ", " The Case of the Missing Air ", and " The View from the Rear Terrace ").