Admiral Halsey's forces spent the rest of the year battling up the Solomon Islands chain to Bougainville.

Admiral Halsey's command shifted with it, and in May 1944 he was promoted to commanding officer of the newly formed Third Fleet.

Finally Halsey's Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Robert " Mick " Carney, confronted him, telling Halsey " Stop it!

A Navy court of inquiry was again convened, this time recommending that Halsey be reassigned, but Admiral Nimitz declined to abide by this recommendation, citing Halsey's prior service record.

When you moved into Admiral Halsey's command from Admiral Spruance's ... you moved an area in which you never knew what you were going to do in the next five minutes or how you were going to do it, because the printed instructions were never up to date ....

However, it is instructive to compare Spruance's caution ( particularly his suspicion of a diversionary force ) with Admiral Halsey's later impetuous pursuit of an actual diversionary force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf that left inferior U. S. forces open to an attack off Samar by a Japanese surface action group composed of battleships, cruisers and destroyers.

On 27 May 1945, it became Task Force 37 ( TF-37 ) when it became part of Admiral William Halsey's United States Third Fleet.

Constant air attacks from Admiral William " Bull " Halsey's 3rd Fleet scored a number of torpedo and dive bomber hits on Yamato and Mushashi, mortally wounding the latter, and scored a number of hits on other vessels.

Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander 7th Fleet and responsible for protecting the landing forces, assumed that Halsey's " Battle Plan " was a deployment order and that Task Force 34 ( TF 34 ) was actually guarding San Bernardino.

He earned the Bronze Star with Combat " V " for meritorious service as Commanding Officer of Denver, attached to a task group of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, during operations against the enemy Japanese-held Islands of Kolombangara, Shortland, and Bougainville, in the Solomon area, the night of July 26, 1943.

During Halsey's run to the north in tracking down the Japanese carriers, he received numerous calls from Admiral Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet, whose escort carriers were under attack from a Japanese battlegroup of battleships, cruisers and destroyers.

Rear Admiral Carney arranged with Japanese emissaries for the entry of the Third Fleet into Tokyo Bay, accepted the surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base and surrounding area from Vice Admiral Michitaro Totsuka of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and attended the ceremony for the surrender of Japan held on board Admiral Halsey's flagship, the battleship USS Missouri.

* William Halsey — Admiral Halsey's operational mistakes late in the Pacific war are discussed.

British Admiral Sir Peter Parker with nine British warships attacked the fort — still unnamed and incomplete — on June 28, 1776, near the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.

On the night of 15 November, Rear-Admiral Hugo Meurer, the representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper, met Admiral Beatty aboard Beatty's flagship,.

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.

The Pacific fleet flagship is the cruiser BAP Almirante Grau ( CLM-81 ), named for the 19th-century Peruvian Admiral who fought in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1883 ).

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.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

On 27 May 1905, during the battle of Tsushima, Admiral Rozhestvensky's flagship, the battleship Knyaz Suvorov, had been gunned to a wreck by Admiral Togo's 12 inch gunned battleline.

The IJN deployed approximately 21 TBs during the conflict, and on 27 May 1905 the Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and TBs launched 16 torpedoes at the battleship Knyaz Suvorov, Admiral Rozhestvensky's flagship at the battle of Tsushima.

Already gunned into a wreck, Admiral Togo, the IJN commander, had ordered his torpedo boats to finish off the enemy flagship as he prepared to pursue the remnants of the Russian battle fleet.

His flagship Ville de Paris was lost at sea in a storm while being conducted back to England as part of a fleet commanded by Admiral Graves.

* June 9 – 14 – Raid on the Medway: A Dutch fleet under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway in England, raids Chatham Dockyard and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.

* USS Hartford ( 1858 ), Admiral David Farragut's flagship in the American Civil War

Admiral Makarov's flagship, the battleship Petropavlovsk struck a mine, and Makarov was among the dead.

The battleship Japanese battleship Mikasa | Mikasa, Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō | Tōgō's flagship at the battle of Tsushima, preserved as a memorial in Yokosuka, Japan

" When Tōgō decided to execute a turn to port in sequence, he did so to preserve the sequence of his battleline, with the flagship Mikasa still in the lead ( which could indicate that Admiral Tōgō wanted his more powerful units to enter action first ).

At the same time the entire Japanese fleet put to sea, with Admiral Tōgō from his flagship Mikasa leading over forty vessels to meet the Russians.

Admiral Sir John Jervis was on his flagship Victory.

A flotilla of ships led by Admiral de Ruyter broke through the defensive chains guarding the Medway, burned part of the English fleet docked at Chatham and towed away the Unity and the Royal Charles, pride and normal flagship of the English fleet.

* Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyters ' flagship ' The Seven Provinces ' is being rebuilt in the Dutch town of Lelystad.

It is sent as the flagship of Vice Admiral Richard Bolitho to oversee transfer of control over the island of San Felipe to the French, as part of the Treaty of Amiens.

Flames engulf Ottoman triple-gundeck battleship Mansur al-Liwa, flagship of Kara-Ali Pasha, Kapudan Pasha ( Grand Admiral ) of the Ottoman Navy, after it was struck by a Greek fireship in Chios harbour on the night of June 6 / 7, 1822.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

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.

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.

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 ).

The French suffered too: Admiral Brueys on Orient was severely wounded in the face and hand by flying debris during the opening exchange of fire with Bellerophon.

The messenger was a staff officer sent by the Governor of Alexandria General Jean Baptiste Kléber, and the report had been hastily written by Admiral Ganteaume, who had subsequently rejoined Villeneuve's ships at sea.

" Bonaparte later placed much the blame for the defeat on the wounded Admiral Blanquet, falsely accusing him of surrendering Franklin while his ship was undamaged.

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.

Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations wrote a position paper that helped Kennedy to differentiate between what they termed a " quarantine " of offensive weapons and a blockade of all materials, claiming that a classic blockade was not the original intention.

Then I went to Admiral, but that was taken.

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.