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He and Admiral John Benbow, commander of the smaller British fleet, avoided one another, and Château-Renault eventually escorted home the Spanish treasure fleet from Vera Cruz that met its end at Vigo Bay.
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The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.
Admiral John Jellicoe, described by Churchill as the only man who could " lose the war in an afternoon " by losing the strategic British superiority in dreadnought battleships, was not a dashing showman like David Beatty.
John Gordon ( 1792 – 1869 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
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.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO SGM ( 5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I.
Under Admiral John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Jellicoe was made Director of Naval Ordnance in 1905.
English was later rescued by Lord John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the British Fleet.
As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.
* 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
* 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard for breach of the Articles of War.
The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).
Among his colleagues were Admiral Sir William Penn, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Mennes and Sir William Batten.
Admiral Clark served aboard the destroyers USS John W. Weeks ( DD 701 ) and USS Gearing ( DD 710 ).
In April 1757 Pitt was dismissed from office on account of his opposition to the continental policy and the circumstances surrounding the court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.
** John D. Bulkeley, U. S. Navy Vice Admiral, and Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1911 )
** American Civil War – Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
* March 14 – Seven Years ' War: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard for breach of the Articles of War.
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.
Additionally, Vice Admiral Henry C. Mustin's sons, Captain Lloyd M. Mustin II and Captain John Mustin both continue to serve in the Naval Reserves following an initial tour of active service.
Severely disappointed at the condition of the navy, Hunt established an improvement planning board headed by Rear Admiral John Rogers.
Admiral and Benbow
On 14 October 1986, Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were.
A biography within an 1819 publication of The Gentleman's Magazine, however, records in a short biography entitled Life and Exploits of Admiral Benbow by D. Parkes that he was born in 1650, as does the 1861 Sea kings and naval heroes by John George Edgar.
Benbow continued aboard the Sovereign throughout 1691, and by the summer of 1692, was again master of the fleet, this time under Admiral Edward Russell, then aboard the Britannia.
Benbow as an Admiral, engraved by John Chapman and published in 1797.
Benbow served there until summer 1701, under the command of Admiral Sir George Rooke.
By now Benbow, " who having seen the cowardly behaviour of some of them before, had reason to believe that they either had a design against him or to be traitors to their country if an opportunity happened that the French could have destroyed the Admiral ", ordered the squadron to return to Jamaica.
Samuel Vincent of the Falmouth and Christopher Fogg of the Breda were initially sentenced to be cashiered for signing the six captains ' resolution, but Benbow personally declared that they had fought bravely and their sentences were remitted by the Lord High Admiral.
Here lyeth the Body of John Benbow, Esq., Admiral of the White, a true pattern of English Courage, who lost his life in Defence of his Queene & Country, November the 4th, 1702, In the 52nd year of his age, by a wound in his Legg.
Robert Louis Stevenson named the tavern where Jim Hawkins and his mother live in his romantic adventure novel Treasure Island the " Admiral Benbow ", and titled the first chapter " The Old Sea Dog at the Admiral Benbow ".
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Benbow, after Admiral John Benbow:
Tradition has it that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, here, and it was Robert Louis Stevenson ’ s inspiration for the Admiral Benbow in Treasure Island.
* Admiral John Benbow ( 1653 – 1702 ) of the Royal Navy
Admiral Benbow could be:
* Admiral Benbow Inn, fictional home of Jim Hawkins in the novel Treasure Island ( 1883 )
* Admiral Benbow an English folk song.
Admiral and commander
* 1944 – William J. Fallon, U. S. Navy Admiral, former U. S. Central Command commander
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Beatty died after catching a chill as pallbearer at the funeral of his old commander Admiral Jellicoe.
The current commander is Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish.
On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.
East Pakistan's Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, unified commander of Eastern Military High Command ( EMHC ), and Air Marshal Mitty Masud, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were the only officers to object to the plans.
Admiral Shariff served as the deputy unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan.
His handling of the Grand Fleet during the battle remains controversial, with some historians faulting the battlecruiser commander, Admiral David Beatty.
Admiral von Tirpitz became the commander of the Navy.
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In June 2009, the Somali navy was re-established with a new commander appointed: Admiral Farah Omar Ahmed.
In 1976, Admiral Sa-ngad Chaloryu, the armed forces commander, staged a massacre and coup that brought hardline anti-communists to power and reversed these reforms.
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.
Ten days after the attack, Lt. General Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor, were both relieved of their duties.
French and British patrol frigates each spotted the other's fleet around 9: 30 am ; both at first incorrectly undercounted the size of the other fleet, leading each commander to believe the other fleet was the smaller fleet of Admiral de Barras.
This placed the squadron of Hood, his most aggressive commander, at the rear of the line, and that of Admiral Francis Samuel Drake in the van.
The commander of the joint French and Spanish forces, Admiral Villeneuve, was captured along with his ship Bucentaure.
As the right-hand man to Admiral Adolf von Trotha, the Navy's commander, Raeder played a prominent role in rallying support for the putsch.
On 9 August, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, commander of the 1st Pacific Squadron, was ordered to sortie his fleet to Vladivostok, link up with the Squadron stationed there, and then engage the IJN in decisive battle.
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.
Admiral Chester Nimitz, based at Pearl Harbor, was designated as overall Allied commander in chief for Pacific forces.
The commander of the Allied expeditionary force was U. S. Vice Admiral Frank Fletcher ( flag in aircraft carrier ).
However, he was treated to a surprise: Admiral François Darlan — the commander of all French forces — was also in Algiers on a private visit.
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