In March 1945, President Roosevelt ( who had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy during Wilson's administration and was involved in the four-star 1916 presidential flag design ) noted that the flags for the new ranks of Fleet Admiral and General of the Army both had five stars, and asked the Army and Navy Departments for suggestions.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

* nickname of William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery ( 1873 – 1967 ), Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet

A small force of submarines based in Western Australian sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and American navies together, an exploit which earned Admiral Helfrich the nickname " Ship-a-day Helfrich ".

The name " grog " probably came from the nickname of Admiral Vernon, who was known as " Old Grog " because he wore a grogram cloak.

The base and the Restricted Area were under Commodore ( later Vice Admiral ) Sir Gilbert Stephenson, whose strict discipline and ferocious temper earned him the nickname " The Terror of Tobermory ".

Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Roxbury Latin School, and the United States Naval Academy in June 1914 where he was given the nickname " Ziggy " ( although no relation to Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, the two both attended the Naval Academy, later graduating from the same class ).

In that time, his nickname was Otto II or Vizeadmiral (" Vice Admiral ").

* Edward Boscawen ( 1711 – 1761 ), Admiral in the Royal Navy, was given the nickname " Old Dreadnaught "

For instance, Admiral Richard Lord Howe ( 1762-1799 ), one of Britain ’ s best known and respected seamen – and a white man – was commonly called “ Black Dick ,” a nickname his brother Sir William Howe gave to him as descriptive of the Admiral ’ s swarthy complexion.

Ultimately he was granted diplomatic immunity, and arrived in New York in March 1940, reputedly with the help of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.

With the intercession of the United States Department of State in Washington, DC and with the lobbying of many Jewish leaders on behalf of the Rebbe ( and, reputedly, with the help of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr ), he was finally granted diplomatic immunity and given safe passage to go via Berlin to Riga, and then on to New York City, where he arrived on 19 March 1940.

His mother was Hon Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone-Fleeming, daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming of Cumbernauld and a Spanish noblewoman Doña Catalina Paulina Alessandro de Jiménez, ( who, reputedly, along with her 2nd husband Admiral James Katon ), heavily influenced Cunninghame Graham's upbringing.

Royal Navy charts and the related surveys were reputedly officially started as a result of the loss of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell on an uncharted reef off the Scilly Isles which happened in October 1707 ( see main article Scilly naval disaster of 1707 ).

The Admiral comes to the Bellona to thank Stephen for his treatment and also invites Jack to dinner with all the captains on the flagship.

While tension clearly exists between them, Josh often comes to Hoynes ' defense ( though he also gives tacit support to an abortive plan to cut Hoynes from the 2002 ticket in favor of Admiral Fitzwallace, and it's shown that Hoynes ' top defender amongst the senior staffers is Sam, which is possibly due to Sam's staunch idealism and strict loyalty to those around him ).

Back at Pinnacle Base, Admiral Ackbar comes up with a plan for 2 people to infiltrate the facility building the Phantom P-38s at Imdaar Alpha.

Hyacinthe comes up with the idea to transport Phèdre safely to Admiral Quintilius Rousse by traveling along the Tsingani routes that are unknown by D ' Angelines.

And then comes the most startling news of all: Grand Admiral Thrawn -- believed to be dead for ten years -- is alive.

# Feedback-Electronic agents on the internet and wartime guns use feedback techniques discovered in the first place by Claude Bernard, whose vivisection experiments kick off animal rights movements called humane societies that really start out as lifeboat crews rescuing people from all the shipwrecks happening because of all the extra ships out there who are using Matthew Maury's data on wind and currents transmitted by the radio telegraph, invented by Samuel Morse, who's also a painter whose hero is Washington Allston, who spends time in Italy with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who comes to Malta and spies for the governor Alexander Ball who saved Admiral Horatio Nelson's skin so he can go head over heels for Emma Hamilton in Naples, resulting in an illegitimate son.

He is restationed at Wake Island where he comes under the command of Admiral Daniel Howells.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

In 1805, aged 67, he retired from the Navy with the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and spent most of the rest of his life at Bath.

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 navy (, ) traces its heritage to Admiral Cochrane's mercenary fleet and to the tiny Portuguese ships and crews that protected the earliest coastal colonies from seaborne marauders.

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.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan " House of the Admiral " wall painting from c. 1600 BCE, showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period ( 14th12th centuries BCE ).

On 1 January 1919, Beatty was promoted to the permanent rank of Admiral, with seniority from 27 November 1916.

These were four of the most powerful ships in the world, but he positioned them so far away from his six battlecruisers that they were unable to take part in most of the engagement with Admiral Hipper's squadron of five battlecruisers.

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.

Disheartened and isolated, Admiral Ahsan took early retirement from the Navy and quietly settled in Karachi.

The Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter inflicted a few strategic defeats on the Anglo-French naval alliance and forced England to retire from the war in 1674.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.

Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount Jellicoe served as Governor-General of New Zealand from September 1920 to November 1924.

Wilhelm became Grand Admiral of the German Navy, but also was awarded honorific titles from all over Europe, becoming admiral in the British, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Greek navies.

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

Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1909.

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.

This event affected the operations of the German fleet, whose commanders were ordered ( the " Laconia Order ") by Admiral Karl Dönitz to stop trying to rescue civilian survivors, ushering in the subsequent unrestricted submarine warfare for the German Navy ( Admiral Nimitz testified at Admiral Dönitz's trial that the US had practiced unrestricted warfare from day one ).