The rear of the Southern Force — the " Second Striking Force " commanded by Vice Admiral Shima — had departed from Mako and approached Surigao Strait about astern of Nishimura.

A smaller Japanese force under Vice Admiral Shoji Nishimura came up the strait, aware of the formidable strength of the American force but nonetheless pressing on.

Rear Admiral Shōji Nishimura was assigned to command the Second Southern Expeditionary Fleet's Occupation Force, with the light cruiser as his flagship.

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.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

In addition to Admiral Brueys killed and Admiral Blanquet wounded, four captains died and seven others were seriously wounded.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.

Captain de Boades of the Réfléchi was killed in the opening broadside of Admiral Drake's Princessa, and the four ships of the French van were, according to a French observer, " engaged with seven or eight vessels at close quarters.

After his father was killed in 1563, he became Duke of Vendôme at the age of 10, with Admiral Gaspard de Coligny ( 1519 – 1572 ) as his regent.

Although the Admiral gave favourable consideration to these initiatives, they came to nought when Coligny was killed in 1572.

As he was killed outside of direct combat, the Guise considered this an assassination on the orders of the duke's enemy, Admiral Coligny.

At the Battle of Jarnac ( 16 March 1569 ), the prince of Condé was killed, forcing Admiral de Coligny to take command of the Protestant forces, nominally on behalf of Condé's 15 year old son, Henry, and the sixteen-year old Henry of Navarre, who were presented by Jeanne d ' Albret as the legitimate leaders of the Huguenot cause against royal authority.

A group led by Guise in person dragged Admiral Coligny from his bed, killed him, and threw his body out of the window.

Historian Barbara B. Diefendorf, Professor of History at Boston University, wrote that Simon Vigor had " said if the King ordered the Admiral ( Coligny ) killed, ' it would be wicked not to kill him '.

I would have liked to see him killed in action in the final battle, but I guess that ’ s asking a lot of a sickly old Admiral.

The Japanese Combined Fleet was led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, until he was killed in an attack by U. S. fighter planes in April 1943.

Vice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee ( 22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914 ) was a German admiral remembered for his activities during the First World War in which he was killed in action.

2, 200 German sailors were killed or drowned in the encounter, including Admiral Spee and his two sons.

German casualties were 1, 242 with 712 men killed, including Rear Admiral Maass, and 336 prisoners of war.

Gibbons also made the monument for Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, a British naval hero killed in a disastrous shipwreck in 1707.

The Chinese severely damaged four Japanese warships — the Japanese flagship Matsushima suffered the worst single-ship loss with more than 100 dead or wounded after being hit by a heavy Chinese round ; Hiei being severely damaged and retired from the conflict ; Akagi suffering from heavy fire and with great loss of life ; Saikyo, the converted liner, urged on by Admiral Kabayama Sukenori despite its lack of offensive armament, had been hit by four 12 inch ( 305 mm ) shells and was sailing virtually out of control as a result — did cosmetic damage to two more, and killed about 180 Japanese sailors and wounded 200 more.

* Horace Hood ( 1870 – 1916 ) descended from Admiral Hood, killed in the Battle of the Jutland 1916

The Empire rose again several times under powerful leaders such as Grand Admiral Thrawn and a series of clones of Palpatine, but was always thwarted when those leaders were killed.

* Red Admiral, Gosforth-shots fired and one man killed ;

On 18 April 1943, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was shot down and killed by a United States P-38 Lightning over south Bougainville after taking off from Rabaul.

That night, Baron De Quellenec was killed after having tried to save Admiral Coligny the previous night.

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

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

* August 30 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident: A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action.

Admiral Hood interpreted the instruction to maintain line of battle to take precedence over the signal for close action, and as a consequence his squadron did not close rapidly and never became significantly engaged in the action.

A complex plan to distract the British by threatening their possessions in the West Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

" 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 ).

Admiral Rozhestvensky was knocked out of action by a shell fragment that struck his skull.

During the night action, Admiral Tōgō was able to rest his main fleet of armoured ships.

The Navarin was lost during the night action, on 27 – 28 May, while the Sissoi Veliky, Admiral Nakhimov and Admiral Ushakov were either scuttled or sunk the next day.

As a junior commander, he was subject to the orders of his Commander in Chief ( Admiral Jervis ); in taking this action he was acting against the " form line ahead and astern of Victory " order and using his own wide interpretation of " take suitable stations " in the later signal.

Others, such as Admiral Sharp, maintained that U. S. actions did not provoke the August 2 action.

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

Glorious action of the French Admiral Suffren against the British Admiral Hughes in the seas of Ceylon.

In each region, a Naval Admiral, called Préfet Maritime, is in charge of coordination of all state services for action at sea ( Navy, Affaires maritimes, gendarmerie, customs, fishery survey ...).

Rear Admiral Graves, repeated the signal, but in a place invisible to most other ships while keeping Nelson's ' close action ' signal at his masthead.

They both saw action, which was described on 24 April 1918 by Vice – Admiral Sir Roger Keyes of the Royal Navy in a message to the ferries ' manager:

The action was led by Admiral James Watson and the English had several ships available, some Royal troops and some Maratha allies.