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rear and naval
* Blackburn B-25 Roc ( 1938 )-single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane naval fighter / dive bomber with rear turret ( built by Boulton Paul Aircraft )
A rear admiral in the Pakistani Navy is a senior and two-star rank naval officer, appointed in higher naval commands.
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d ' Urville ( 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842 ) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.
In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or " aft ", part of the superstructure of a ship.
After several years ashore, he is promoted to rear admiral and appointed naval Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies.
In The World at War, a naval serviceman — who had been alongside Admiral Kimmel during the attack — recalled that as Kimmel watched the destruction of the fleet, he tore off his four-star shoulder boards and replaced them with those of a rear admiral, in apparent recognition of the impending end of his command of the Pacific Fleet.
A brigadier-general is senior to a colonel or naval captain, and junior to a major-general or rear admiral.
* Admiral Ronne Froman, who graduated from Seton Hill College in 1969, served 31 years in the United States Navy, retiring as a rear admiral, and was the first female US Navy admiral to be " in charge of naval bases and stations around the world " She then filled several high-profile civilian positions in San Diego, California.
A periplus was also an ancient naval manoeuvre in which attacking triremes would outflank or encircle the defenders in order to attack them in the rear.
Promoted to rear admiral on 20 May 1900, and vice admiral on 6 June 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War he was a commander of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the IJN 1st Fleet and took part in the naval Battle of Port Arthur, Battle of the Yellow Sea, ( where he commanded from the cruiser ), and he led the Third Squadron during the decisive Battle of Tsushima from his flagship, the cruiser.
Enlisting in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 22 August 1914, he served in a wide variety of theatres and actions in the First World War, including the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, Harwich light cruisers, Admiral Troubridge ’ s mission to the Danube, naval siege guns at Flanders, the Zeebrugge Raid in which, commanding a rear gun on the Vindictive, he was severely wounded, necessitating the amputation of his right arm, and, finally, in the obscure Russian campaign, commanding an armoured train on the line south of Archangel.
* William Reynolds ( naval officer ) ( 1815 – 1879 ), U. S. Navy rear admiral in the American Civil War
For his services with the Western Gunboat Flotilla, Foote was among the first naval officers to be promoted to the then-new rank of rear admiral.
The Taira were expecting a naval attack, and so Yoshitsune lit bonfires on Shikoku, essentially in their rear, fooling the Taira into believing that a large force was approaching on land.
Aft, in naval terminology, is an adjective or adverb meaning, towards the stern ( rear ) of the ship, when the frame of reference is within the ship.
In naval use only " van " and " rear " are applied to a formation of ships sailing in column.
In later times the Schout-bij-nacht was also the officer who supervised an entire Navy squadron, in the absence of a senior Admiral, and by the 17th century Schout-bij-nacht was the common rank held by the naval commander of a battle fleet's rear squadron.
Karl-Jesco Otto Robert von Puttkamer ( 24 March 1900 – 4 March 1981 ) was a German rear admiral who was naval adjutant to Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler during World War II.
* John E. Pillsbury, U. S. naval officer who became a rear admiral
As a rear admiral aboard the 24-gun flagship Vladimir, he took part in the naval campaign in the Liman ( an arm of the Black Sea, into which flow the Southern Bug and Dnieper rivers ) against the Turks.
Appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in April 1869, Alden — promoted to rear admiral on June 19, 1871 — returned to sea in 1871 with orders to command the naval force on the European Station.

rear and squadron
The phantom insignia on the Koenigsegg's rear window is a tribute to a squadron from the Swedish air force wing F 10 Ängelholm, which had the ghost as its emblem.
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 need for the two lines to actually reach parallel lines so they might fully engage led Graves to give conflicting signals that were interpreted critically differently by Admiral Hood, directing the rear squadron, than Graves intended.
Cornelis Tromp, commanding the Dutch rear, had defeated his English counterpart, but was accused by De Ruyter of being responsible for the plight of the main body of the Dutch fleet by chasing the English rear squadron as far as the English coast.
On the first day Monck, sailing in the van with George Ayscue's white squadron behind him and Thomas Teddiman's blue squadron forming the rear, surprised the Dutch fleet at anchor near Dunkirk.
After a calm used for repairs he turned to attack the English from the south with the red flag raised, the sign for an all-out attack, but just when he approached the enemy line he noticed to his dismay that part of the rear squadron under Tromp had got separated and now was positioned to the other side of the English line who had surrounded Tromp and were giving him his belly full.
The previous day the damaged Hollandia had been sent home together with the Gelderland, Delft, Reiger, Asperen and Beschermer to guard the three captured English vessels ; now also the damaged Pacificatie, Vrijheid, Provincie Utrecht and Calantsoog had to return and only a handful of the rear squadron remained.
Thus enforced with 23 ' fresh ' ships and so numbering in between 60 to 65 men-of-war and 6 fireships, the English attacked in line on the fourth day with Sir Christopher Myngs now in charge of the van, Rupert of the center, and Monk of the rear squadron.
Shortly, the second squadron of the Inniskillings attacked the left flank of the Russians, followed by the 5th Dragoon Guards who crashed into the Russians as they folded around the rear of the Scots Greys.
Banckert managed to disengage from the French and joined the Dutch centre, upon which Rupert decided to move north to the rear squadron to prevent that he would have to fight a superior Dutch force, followed by De Ruyter with the mass of his ships.
During the retirement to Wellington Ridge, the covering squadrons on the left near Katib Gannit were also attacked, as was the squadron on the right, which was taken in the flank and suffered considerable loss, but managed to hold its ground until the position in its rear was occupied.
Russell countered by holding fire as long as possible, to allow the French to come closer ; Almonde, in the van extended to try to overlap the French line, while Admiral Ashby, with the rear and some way off, sought to close and bring his Blue squadron into action.
Torrington himself was in the centre red squadron ; the rear blue squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Ralph Delaval, comprised both English and Dutch ships.
The blue squadron in the French van was commanded by Château-Renault ; Victor-Marie d ' Estrées commanded the rear white and blue squadron.
Delaval's greatly outnumbered blue squadron fought a desperate battle with d ' Estrées in the rear.

rear and third
He consulted the parking ticket, then looked at a notation and said, `` You're in the third row back toward the rear.
The rear half of the third carriage, and forward half of the fourth carriage came to rest under the weakened bridge.
* The rear triarii ( rear third line )
Fred ( hooped cap ) is third left in rear group.
External 32 kB RAM packs that mounted in the rear expansion slot were also available from third parties.
The three-seat models featured forward-facing seating, at a time when most three-seat station wagons had the third row of seats facing the rear.
However, as early as 07: 35, the third battalion 726th Grenadier Regiment, defending Draw F-1 on Fox Green beach, was reporting that 100 – 200 American troops had penetrated the front, with troops inside the wire at WN-62 and WN-61 attacking the Germans from the rear.
In 1970 the car gained rear light units from the Citroën Ami 6, and also standardised a third side window in the rear pillar on 2CV6 ( 602 cc ) models.
A novel safety feature was the introduction of a third locking lug present at the rear of the bolt that normally did not lock the bolt, since it would introduce asymmetrical locking forces.
This changed the tenor of Briarcliffe by moving it from a retirement community to a third ( less-expensive ) alternative to the Pine Lakes and Dunes sections, all of which offered a place to rear a family close to, but not in, the increasing tawdriness of Myrtle Beach itself.
Acura initially had plans for the third generation of RL to be a rear wheel drive V8 sedan for its flagship, but shelved the plans in the wake of the 2008 economic downturn.
The basic arrangement for seating six was three passengers in the front and three passengers in the rear, all on bench-type seats ; to accommodate nine, a third bench seat was installed in the rear cargo area, over the rear axle.
Convertibles such as both the first and eleventh generation of the Ford Thunderbird and the second and third generations of the Mercedes SL featured as standard or optional equipment fully rigid, manually installable hardtops – later examples including heatable rear windows.
A Hatchback is a car body style incorporating a shared passenger and cargo volume, with rearmost accessibility via a rear third or fifth door, typically a top-hinged liftgate — and features such as fold-down rear seats to enable flexibility within the shared passenger / cargo volume.
A liftback is a broad marketing term for a hatchback, which incorporates a shared passenger and cargo volume, with rearmost accessibility via a rear third or fifth door, typically a top-hinged liftgate — especially where the profile aspect of the rear cargo door is more horizontal than vertical, with a sharply raked or fastback profile.
This provides nearly the same lower gear ratios as a triple but without the need for a third chainring, a triple front derailleur and a long cage rear derailleur.
All wagons still featured Ford's " Magic Doorgate " three-way tailgate, while the power rear window, rear-facing third seat and roof rack remained options.

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