With the French army ashore, the fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, a station northeast of Alexandria, in a formation that its commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, believed established a formidable defensive position.

He instructed his naval commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, to anchor in Alexandria harbour, but naval surveyors reported that the channel into the harbour was too shallow and narrow for the larger ships of the French fleet.

The actual proposer of the idea of the Mulberry harbour is disputed, but among those who are known to have proposed something along these lines is Hugh Iorys Hughes, a Welsh civil engineer who submitted initial plans on the idea to the War Office, Professor J. D. Bernal, and Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett.

* Vice-Admiral Alan D. Richards 2012 -

Those ships that took part are accurately named, and included the French protected cruiser Guichen and the armored cruiser Jeanne D ' Arc, as well as others under the command of Vice-Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet, who received a posthumous medal from the French government in October 2010 for his role in transporting the 4, 000 people left on the Damlayik to Port Said, Egypt.

Vice-Admiral Count Pierre-Etienne-René-Marie Dumanoir Le Pelley ( Granville, 2 August 1770 – Paris, 6-7 July 1829 ) was a French Navy officer, best known for commanding the vanguard of the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Malet's proposed provisional government would be composed of Mathieu de Montmorency, Alexis de Noailles, General Moreau as vice president, Lazare Carnot as president, Marshal Augereau, ex-legislator Bigonnet, Count Frochot, Prefect of the Seine, ex-legislator Florent Guiot, Destutt de Tracy, Malet himself, Vice-Admiral Truguet, Senator Volney, and Senator Garrat.

Tromp had also been suspended after the failure at Shetland, and Vice-Admiral Witte de With was given command.

During his career, his main rival was Vice-Admiral Witte de With, who also served the Admiralty of Rotterdam ( de Maze ) from 1637.

After some inconclusive minor fights the English were successful in the first major battle, General at Sea Robert Blake defeating the Dutch Vice-Admiral Witte de With in the Battle of the Kentish Knock in October 1652.

The office of " Vice-Admiral of France " ( Vice-amiral de France ) was the highest rank, the supreme office of " Admiral of France " being purely ceremonial.

The ship to the right of the burning Royal James is that of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde.

On, Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp put to sea in the Brederode with a fleet of 100 ships to lift the blockade at the island of Texel, where Vice-Admiral Witte de With's 27 ships were trapped by the English.

The heavy cruisers Trieste ( carrying Vice-Admiral Luigi Sansonetti ), Trento and Bolzano were accompanied by three destroyers of the 12th Flotilla ( Ascari, Corazziere and Carabiniere ), plus the light cruisers ( Vice-Admiral A. Legnano ) and ( 7th cruiser division ) and two destroyers of the 16th Flotilla ( namely Emanuele Pessagno and Nicoloso de Recco ) from Brindisi.

Vrijheid 80 ( Vice-Admiral Jan Evertszoon de Liefde, killed in battle )

His army partly trapped at Landskrona and partly isolated on the Danish islands by superior Danish and Dutch forces under Vice-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, Charles was forced to withdraw in 1659.

He organized the expedition of a colony of Huguenots to Brazil, under the leadership of his friend and navy colleague, Vice-Admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, who established the colony of France Antarctique in Rio de Janeiro, in 1555.

* Michiel de Ruyter's attack on the anchored English fleet at the battle of Solebay in 1672 in which HMS Royal James was burned, killing Vice-Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, and wounding Royal Jamess captain, Richard Haddock.

The fleet was reorganised into three squadrons: the first was commanded by De Ruyter himself, with as Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde and Rear-Admiral Jan Jansse van Nes ; the second was commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Aert Jansse van Nes with as Vice-Admiral Enno Doedes Star and Rear-Admiral Willem van der Zaan ; the third was commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Baron Willem Joseph van Ghent with Lieutenant-Admiral Jan van Meppel in subcommand and as Vice-Admirals Isaac Sweers and Volckert Schram and as Rear-Admirals David Vlugh and Jan Gideonsz Verburgh.

Royal Charles, with only thirty cannon aboard and abandoned by her skeleton crew when they saw the Matthias burn, was then captured by the Irishman Thomas Tobiasz, the flag captain of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde, and carried off to the Netherlands despite an unfavourable tide.

The Battle of Camperdown ( known in Dutch as the Zeeslag bij Kamperduin ) was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter.

Tone joined the staff of Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter on his flagship Vrijheid in the Texel and 13, 500 Dutch troops were equipped in preparation for the operation, the fleet waiting only for the best moment to take advantage of westerly winds and sweep past the British blockade and down the English Channel.

On 1 December 1652 Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, again ( unofficial ) supreme commander after his successor Vice-Admiral Witte de With had suffered a breakdown because of his defeat at the Battle of the Kentish Knock, set sail from Hellevoetsluis with 88 men of war and 5 fireships, escorting a vast convoy bound for the Indies.

Efforts were renewed under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800, and the following year engineers Ferregeau and Armand Samuel de Marescot, and Vice-Admiral François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros designed a fort to be built on the bank.

On 29 July De Ruyter was appointed Vice-Commodore, an originally Dutch creation between Captain and Rear-Admiral, with the confederate Dutch fleet and shortly after took over command, in the absence of Vice-Admiral Witte de With, of a squadron assembling in the Wielingen, off the coast of Zealand, to escort a large convoy.

In 1645, as a Rear-Admiral, he was part of Vice-Admiral Witte de With's convoy breaking the blockade of The Sound by Denmark.

* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

* 27 November 1916 – January 1917: Vice-Admiral ( Actg.

* January – 25 June 1917: Vice-Admiral ( Actg.

* 25 June 1917 – 1 January 1919: Vice-Admiral ( Actg.

* 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

* January 16 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland ( d. 1834 )

* April 5 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Governor of Newfoundland ( b. 1757 )

* Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ( 1758 – 1805 )-received Freedom of the Borough in 1800.

The area receives its name from Russian Vice-Admiral Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin, ( 1776 – 1831 ).

On 20 August 1827, the British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean ( i. e .. commander of " Blue " Squadron ), Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington ( 1770 – 1851 ), veteran of 44 years at sea and a popular hero for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar, received his government's instructions regarding enforcement of the treaty.

De Ruyter – after refusing to become Obdam's naval ' advisor ' – remained in service of the Dutch navy however and later accepted an offer from the admiralty of Amsterdam to become their Vice-Admiral on 2 March 1654.

* Vice-Admiral James Troup, 1935 – 1939

* Vice-Admiral John Godfrey, 1939 – 1942

* Vice-Admiral Edward Parry, 1946 – 1948

* Vice-Admiral Sir John Inglis, 1954 – 1960

* Vice-Admiral Sir Norman Denning, 1960 – 1964

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN ( 5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865 ) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality.

Vice-Admiral John Hunter, RN ( 29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821 ) succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1795 to 1800.

Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares KCB FRS ( 24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915 ) was a British naval officer and Arctic explorer.

* John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland ( 1696 – 1782 ), Scottish MP for Saltash and Ordford, Master of the Jewel Office, Vice-Admiral of Scotland

James Arthur Murray ( 1790 – 1860 ), only son of Lord William Murray, third son of the third Duke, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His son John Murray-Aynsley was the father of 1 ) Charles Murray-Aynsley ( 1821 – 1901 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; 2 ) George Herbert Murray-Aynsley ( 1826 – 1887 ), a Major-General in the Madras Army, and 3 ) Hugh Murray-Aynsley, a New Zealand politician.

* Jon Pertwee – Chief Petty Officer Pertwee, Commander Weatherby, Vice-Admiral " Burbly " Burwasher, The Master, Commander Bell