On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.

His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.

Gage Roads was named after Rear-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage who was Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's East India Station when James Stirling was surveying the Swan River in 1826.

He was the father of 1 ) Joseph Yorke, who was the father of Joseph Yorke, Member of Parliament for Reigate, who was the father of John Yorke, a Conservative politician, who was the grandfather of the author Henry Green ; and 2 ) Reverend Philip Yorke, who was the father of Colonel Philip James Yorke ( 1799-1874 ), a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Reginald Yorke ( 1803-1870 ), a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

During this time, command and field appointments in certain key assignments in Naval Combatant Headquarters ( NHQ ) were given to native officers to replace the admirals of Royal Navy. First, Commander Khalid Jamil was appointed as navy's first native Deputy Chief of Naval Staff ( DCNS ) while Rear-Admiral James Wilfred Jefford served as first chief of naval staff until 1953. The chief of naval staff was assisted in the matters of navy by Deputy Chief of Staff Commander M. A. Alavi whilst other administrative positions were also re-designed and created by the Pakistan Government. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance awarded contracts to Corps of Engineers of Pakistan Army to led the construction of NHQ in Karachi and the Karachi Naval Dockyard in mid 1950s.

In 1861 he was promoted to Rear-Admiral and in 1862 he succeeded Admiral Sir James Hope as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station.

* Battleships: Centurion, Barfleur ( Rear-Admiral Sir James A. T. Bruce, K. C. M. G.

In 1920 he married Beatrix Justina Dunbar-Rivers ; they had two sons ( Rear-Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith and the architect Professor Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith ) and a daughter.

Numerous historians have commented on these unexplained omissions, William James noting that Douglas and Queen Charlotte were particularly unfortunate in this regard as the admiral normally aboard, Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, was ashore at the court-martial of Captain Anthony Molloy and consequently the ship received no recognition despite being the most heavily engaged of any in the British fleet.

Both his brother, Rear-Admiral James Bowen, and Sir John Jervis pressured the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Spencer, while Nelson wrote to Jervis ;

Until July 1805, Bremer served in the flagship of HMS Isis under Vice-Admiral James Gambier and Rear-Admiral Edward Thornbrough, on the Newfoundland and North Sea stations.

On the evening of 13 September, by which time sailors had already started agitating, Rear-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson ( in temporary command of the fleet while Admiral Sir Michael Hodges was in hospital ) received a letter from the Admiralty dated 10 September.

Stopford had orders to supersede Rear-Admiral Albemarle Bertie as commander in chief at the Cape, but on his arrival he learnt of Vice-Admiral Drury's death, and the planned expedition to Java, and so travelled on.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

In January 1906, he resumed his full-time naval career, first as an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty and, in August, as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton on.

Camp Barriefield was named in honour of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie ( May 5, 1774 – June 7, 1841 ), a British naval officer noted for his service in the War of 1812.

The younger, Rear-Admiral Tōgō Minoru ( 1890 – 1962 ) followed his father into the navy, rising to the rank of rear-admiral and ending his career in 1943 as commander of the naval district in Fukuoka.

He took a naval commission as a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ( RNVR ) on the staff of the Rear-Admiral Coastal Services.

Broadcast of a false order in a broken naval code would have been against the British Naval Staff's policy as noted by Rear-Admiral Herbert Hope " In a very few months we obtained a very good working knowledge of the organisation, operations, and internal economy of the German Fleet.

This bird is named after British naval officer Rear-Admiral William Allen ( 1770-1843 ).

In 1855 he served as Rear-Admiral controlling the naval transport service for the Crimean War from Balaklava ( a city in the Ukraine ).

The argument grew so vociferous that a small British naval squadron — HMS Sutlej, HMS Elias and HMS Sparrowhawk — under the command of Rear-Admiral John Kingcome was dispatched to the area to sort out the problem.

Rear-Admiral Sir Horace Hood, younger son of the fourth Viscount Hood, was also a distinguished naval commander.

In April 1804 Vashon was promoted to Rear-Admiral in command of the naval squadron at Leith, Scotland with his flag aboard.

Behind the table are two British naval officers, Rear-Admiral George Hope ( Royal Navy officer ) | George Hope, First Sea Lord Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss | Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, and the French representatives, Marshal Ferdinand Foch ( standing ), and General Maxime Weygand.

* Rear-Admiral George Hope, British naval officer

Montojo returned to the Philippines again as Rear-Admiral, serving as general commander of all Spanish Philippine naval stations.

At the beginning of 1799 Collingwood was raised to the rank of Rear-Admiral ( of the White 14 February 1799 ; of the Red 1 January 1801 ) and, hoisting his flag in the, joined the Channel Fleet and sailed to the Mediterranean where the principal naval forces of France and Spain were assembled.

Following the destruction of the main ABDA naval force under Rear-Admiral Karel Doorman, at the Battle of the Java Sea, in February – March 1942, ABDA effectively ceased to exist.

Rear-Admiral William Allen FRS ( November 1792 – 23 January 1864 ) was an English naval officer and explorer.

* Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Inglis, American naval officer

Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Calder, who commanded the naval squadron based in Bantry Bay, wrote to the Rt.

The Action of 5 November 1813 was a brief naval clash during the Napoleonic Wars, between part of the British Mediterranean Fleet led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, and a French force under Rear-Admiral Julien Cosmao-Kerjulien.

The Battle of Saint Kitts, also known as the Battle of Frigate Bay, was a naval battle that took place on 25 and 26 January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger French fleet under the Comte de Grasse.

He was promoted to Rear-Admiral on 1 January 1910 by a special order in council since he had not completed the requisite time as a captain.

During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.

Lady Alexandra was a goddaughter of Queen Alexandra and had previously been married to Rear-Admiral Clarence Dinsmore Howard-Johnston, by whom she had had three children.

Rear-Admiral Frederick Stachouwer had also been killed.

In this, he commented that he did not intend to suffer the fate of Rear-Admiral Troubridge, who in August had been court-martialled for failing to engage the enemy despite the odds being against him, during the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau.

Election expenses and losses at play in fashionable circles had shattered his fortune, and he could not secure payment of the salary as Rear-Admiral of Great Britain.

The 4th Marquess was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also sat, as his uncle had done, as Conservative Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds.

The official title of the navy was the Naval Service of Canada ( also Canadian Naval Forces ), and the first Director of the Naval Service of Canada was Rear-Admiral Charles Kingsmill ( Royal Navy, retired ), who had previously been in charge of the Marine Service of the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

His second in command in the Mediterranean was Rear-Admiral Richard Lestock, a man Mathews knew from his time as commissioner at Chatham, when Lestock had commanded the guardships stationed in the Medway.

Rear-Admiral Hood said that the 20 French ships would have been captured had the commander-in-chief maintained the chase.

In this he commented that he did not intend to suffer the fate of Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge, who in August had been courtmartialled for failing to engage the enemy despite the odds being severely against him, during the pursuit of the German warships Goeben and Breslau.

The German fleet, possessing better gunnery and organisation, had the best of the early exchanges ; HMS Defence, an old armoured cruiser commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, was blown up with all 903 hands, and the fast battleship HMS Warspite was badly damaged and forced to limp back to Britain.

Benbow was recommended by Lord Berkeley, who had served with Benbow at Saint-Malo, to be promoted to Rear-Admiral at the next opportunity, and in the meantime he was appointed to the command of the 70-gun HMS Northumberland.

Whetstone was made Rear-Admiral under Benbow, who had been promoted to Vice-Admiral of the White on 19 January 1702 By now the War of the Spanish Succession had broken out, and news of its declaration reached Benbow on 7 July.

Rear-Admiral Henry Oliver had been appointed Director of the Intelligence division in 1913.

Duncan had originally intended to break the line between Vrijheid and the next ship Staaten Generaal under Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, but Story ensured that there was no gap between his vessel and the flagship to break through, and their combined fire was so dangerous to the advancing Venerable that Duncan instead cut through behind Staaten Generaal, raking Story's ship twice and causing it to drift off in confusion as Duncan engaged Vrijheid from the east.

Rear-Admiral Michael Pack had a leg amputated and shortly afterwards died of the complications.

The English had lost one flag officer: Rear-Admiral Robert Samsun, while Vice Admiral Lawson was mortally wounded.

On 10 July, the Turkish fleet under Kapudan Pasha ( Grand Admiral ) Hasan Pasha was seen to the NW by the Russian fleet, which had left Sevastopol under Rear-Admiral Count Voynovitch on 29 June and had reached Tendra on 10 July.