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In the Royal Navy the rank of vice-admiral should be distinguished from the office of " Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom ", which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired " full " admiral, and that of " Vice-Admiral of the Coast ", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.
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* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy
* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.
* HMS Adder, any of seven ships of the Royal Navy
* HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
*, a British Royal Navy ship.
* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.
* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.
Category: Royal Danish Navy
*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships
Royal and rank
After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.
* Air Commodore, a rank in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces
The Royal Netherlands Navy also used the rank of commandeur from the end of the 16th century for a variety of temporary positions, until it became a conventional permanent rank in 1955.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.
This was the first time in Royal Naval history that a father and son had both attained such high rank.
* Mountain Leader, a rank within the British Royal Marines
It was the first rank and file system beginning a proper organizational history for the Royal Nepalese Army.
During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery and then at Bletchley Park, reaching the rank of captain.
* Senior Aircraftsman, British Royal Air Force rank
* Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
* Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the Singapore Police Force and Royal Malaysia Police
On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the university rank and recognition equal to those given by universities in the UK.
* Warrant Officer of the Navy, the most senior non commissioned officer rank in the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN )
* Royal Warrant of Precedence, British monarchy protocol to determine nobility / gentry order of rank
He would eventually rise to the rank of Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy.
The rank was first used in the ( then ) English Royal Navy and is today used in many other countries, including the Commonwealth nations, and the United States.
Warrant officer is a rank between flight sergeant and pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.
The Royal Australian Navy rank of Warrant Officer ( WO ) is the Navy's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to the Army's WO1 ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 rank is a Chief Petty Officer ).
The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).
He was uneducated and from a working class background, but was able to rise to rank of Master in the British Royal Navy.
To complicate matters, the style His Royal Highness, a prefix normally accompanying the title of a dynastic prince, of royal or imperial rank, that is, can be awarded separately ( as a compromise or consolation prize, in some sense ).
Royal and vice-admiral
In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank of vice-admiral ( VAdm ) ( vice-amiral or Vam in French ) is equivalent to lieutenant-general of the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force.
* William George Fairfax, a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy
His two youngest sons, George Edward Nares ( lieutenant, d. 1905 ) and John Dodd Nares ( vice-admiral, d. 1957 ) entered the Royal Navy.
* Norman Wodehouse ( 1887 – 1941 ), Royal Navy vice-admiral
In 1858 he retired from the active list with the rank of rear-admiral, becoming vice-admiral in the same year, and admiral in 1863 and retired from the Royal Navy in 1870.
* John Sheridan ( Royal Navy officer ) ( c. 1778 – 1862 ), vice-admiral of the Royal Navy
* Henry Paulet ( 1767-1832 ), Royal Navy vice-admiral
The court-martial was attended by William Dillon, then a midshipman, who later became a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy and described Edwards in his memoirs as a ' fine, venerable-looking officer.
However, he was promoted to vice-admiral in 1809 and eventually ended his career as admiral of the white, titularly the third most senior officer in the Royal Navy.
As a vice-admiral he was the Defence Services Secretary for two years, managing the relationship between the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Family and also maintaining the balance of appointments of senior officers to tri-service “ defence department ” posts — those posts which are rotated between the services.
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