* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

In April of that year, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison personally selected Lieutenant Commander Roy Marlin " Butch " Voris, a World War II fighter ace, to assemble and train a flight demonstration team, naming him Officer-in-Charge and Flight Leader.

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.

* James William Augustus Nicholson, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

* Rear Admiral CB Layman

* 1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.

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.

* 1938 – Fred Mifflin, Canadian Rear Admiral and politician

Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto tried to organize a coup on August 7, 2008, but was pre-empted and arrested ; however, he managed to escape the country.

After Army chief of staff General Antonio Indjai was reported to have been arrested under the orders of navy chief Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, his troops freed him while Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior went to seek asylum at the Angolan embassy.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ( December 9, 1906January 1, 1992 ) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

Both schools are named for Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson.

On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.

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

* Battle of Heligoland Bight ( Rear Admiral Leberecht Maass )

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.

* Rear Admiral

The current Commander in Chief of the Lithuanian Navy is Rear Admiral Kęstutis Macijauskas.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

In March 1869, it was renamed the Hastings Literary Institute, in honour of Rear Admiral the Honourable George Fowler Hastings.

Since the mid 1990s, the insignia of a Royal Australian Navy Rear Admiral is the crown of St Edward above a crossed sword and baton, above two silver stars, above the word " AUSTRALIA ".

* Rear Admiral Edward F. Welch, Jr., Navy

The engineers were unable to refloat the Phoenixes and US Navy Captain ( later Rear Admiral ) Edward Ellsberg, already well known for quickly refloating scuttled ships at Massawa and Oran, was brought in to accomplish the task, though not without obtaining Churchill's intervention in taking the task away from the Royal Engineers and giving it to the Royal Navy.

* Rear Admiral Sir Edward Troubridge, 1841

* Rear Admiral Sir Edward Troubridge 1837 – 1841

* Rear Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe 1865 – 1866

* Edward Berry ( 1768 – 1831 ), Rear Admiral, Royal Navy

The son of Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig and his wife Ellen Kneffler, Joseph Taussig was born in Dresden, Germany where his father, a lieutenant ( navy ) was on special service at the European Station ( February 1877 – January 1880 ).

He was the second of a three-generational family of United States Naval Academy graduates that served from 1863 to 1954 starting with his father, Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig ( 1847-1921 ), and ending with his son Captain Joseph K. Taussig, Jr. ( 1920-1999 ).

After the fleet rounded Cape Horn and steamed up the western coasts of South and North America, he detached from at Mare Island Navy Yard and was assigned to the staff of his father, Edward D. Taussig by then a Rear Admiral and Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard.

* Donald G. Brownlow, The Accused: The Ordeal of Rear Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, USN ( Vantage Press, 1968 ).

The founders of the U. S. Naval Institute were: Rear Admiral John L. Worden ( former skipper of the USS Monitor ), Commodore Foxhall Parker, Lieutenant Charles Belknap, Commanders Edward Terry and S. Dana Greene, Chief Engineer C. H. Baker, Medical Director Philip Lansdale, Pay Inspector James Murray, Lieutenant Commanders P. E. Harrington, J. E. Craig, Casper F. Goodrich, P. H. Cooper, C. J.

An honor guard accompanied the train ; this consisted of Union Army Major General David Hunter ; brevet Major General John G. Barnard ; Brigadier Generals Edward D. Townsend, Charles Thomas Campbell, Amos Beebe Eaton, John C. Caldwell, Alfred Terry, George D. Ramsey, and Daniel McCallum ; Union Navy Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis and Captain William Rogers Taylor ; and Marine Corps Major Thomas H. Field.

The first was named for Rear Admiral Edward Simpson and the second was named for Rear Admiral Rodger W. Simpson.

Rear Admiral Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet CB ( c. 1787 – 7 October 1852 ), was a British naval commander and politician.

* Rear Adm. Edward D. Sheafer, Jr. ( August 1991 – September 1994 )

Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry, 1st Baronet, KCB ( 1768 – 13 February 1831 ) was an officer in Britain's Royal Navy primarily known for his role as flag captain of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile, prior to his knighthood in 1798.

Because of lax security in 1872 a British officer Rear Adm. Edward Augustus Inglefield sneaked into the New York Navy Yard and inspected the secluded vessel mored on a wharf.

Casey's sons included Silas Casey III, who served as Rear Admiral of the Pacific Squadron, Thomas Lincoln Casey, who served as Chief of Engineers, and Edward Wanton Casey, an Army lieutenant who was killed by the Sioux in 1891.

Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg, OBE ( November 21, 1891-January 24, 1983 ) was an officer in the United States Navy and a popular author.

Campaigning on a platform of progressive reforms, McCreary defeated Republican Edward C. O ' Rear in the general election.

Republicans nominated Judge Edward C. O ' Rear to oppose McCreary.