* 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 Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

Believing that de Grasse would return a portion of his fleet to Europe, Rodney detached Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood with 14 ships of the line and orders to find de Grasse's destination in North America.

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

A highly respected theologian, McCaughey was a popular choice after the controversy surrounding after the resignation of Rear Admiral Sir Brian Murray, following disputed accusations that he had improperly accepted free air travel.

*** Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar

The scale was devised in 1805 by Francis Beaufort ( later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort ), an Irish Royal Navy officer, while serving on HMS Woolwich.

Both commanders would have seen the parallels of Macdonough's anchorage on Lake Champlain to that of the French under Vice Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys, opposing British Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, at the Battle of the Nile in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1798.

She served with Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood's fleet off Nevis on 25 January 1782.

Those currently holding this appointment are Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent ; Admiral of the Fleet HRH The Prince of Wales ; Captain Mark Phillips, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ; Rear Admiral HRH The Duke of York ; Second Lieutenant HRH The Earl of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

* Rear Guard ; Archibald Douglas, Guardian of Scotland ; Earl of Lennox ; Earl of Carrick ; Earl of Fife ; " Counte D ' Assels du Doun ", Earl of Atholl of Doune ; Robert Bruce ; Robert de Lauder ; the son of Sir William Vypoin ; William de Lemyngston ; John de Laundels ; Jocelyn Schyrynglowe ; William Sreterleye ; Bernard Frisel ; John de Lyndseye ; Alexander de Lyndseye ; Alexander de Greye ; Ingram de Umfraville ; Patrick de Polwarth ; David de Wemyss ; Michel Lescot ; Richard Lauder ; Thomas de Boys ; Rogier de Mortimer ; all barons with their followers.

* Sir Samuel Hood ( 1762 – 1814 ), his cousin once removed, was a Rear Admiral.

Here Light met Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, who served under him and succeeded him as captain of the Nile.

* Rear Admiral Sir Edward Troubridge, 1841

* Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Pechell 1830 – 1834

* Rear Admiral Sir Charles Rowley 1834 – 1835

* Rear Admiral Sir George Elliot 1835 – 1837

* Rear Admiral Sir Edward Troubridge 1837 – 1841

* Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Pechell 1841

* Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour 1841 – 1844

* Rear Admiral Sir William Bowles 1844 – 1846

* Rear Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley 1846 – 1847

* Rear Admiral Sir Houston Stewart 1850 – 1852

* Rear Admiral Sir James Stirling 1852

* Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert 1852 – 1853