* 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 " The Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window ," Tania Modleski argues that Hitchock's film, Rear Window, is an example of the power of male gazer and the position of the female as a prisoner of the " master's dollhouse ".

Voyeurism is a common plot device in both serious ( e. g. Rear Window, Klute, Blue Velvet, Disturbia ) and humorous ( e. g. Porky's, Animal House, Semi-Pro, Gregory's Girl, American Pie ) films.

An LVS differs in that it is actually an articulated vehicle, similar to a semi-trailer truck, using a modular system of a Front Power Unit attached to a Rear Body Unit, whereas HEMTTs are non-articulated, single unit vehicles.

* The Aubrey – Maturin series of novels is a sequence of 20 historical novels by Patrick O ' Brian portraying the rise of Jack Aubrey from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Assistant Chief of Naval Staff ( Aviation & Carriers ) is Rear Admiral T A Cunningham.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

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 Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story " It Had to Be Murder ".

Paulsboro is the location of the Tinicum Island Rear Range Lighthouse, first lit on the night of December 31, 1880.

One celebrated one from World War I is " French push bottles up German rear "; life imitated art in the Second World War headline " Eighth Army Push Bottles Up German Rear ".

The current National President of the League is Rear Admiral Ken Doolan, AO RAN ( rtd ).

* Rear visibility deterioration if a plastic rear window is used.

Other interesting details include the fact that Commodore Harwood is shown wearing the shoulder tabs and sleeve rings of a Rear Admiral from the start, and not only after he had been promoted after the battle.

This office has been eliminated, and the highest officer of the Navy is now the Chief of Staff Royal Swedish Navy and Commander Maritime Component Command ( Marininspektören ), Rear Admiral Jan Thörnqvist, who is the senior representative of the Swedish Navy ’ s combat forces.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

According to the classification of the major natural regions of Germany it is part of the Rear Bavarian Forest ( Hinterer Bayerischer Wald )< ref >

Their first collaboration, Rear Window, is considered by many critics to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.

The film is the first in Hitchcock's ' limited-setting ' films, the others being Rope ( 1948 ), Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and Rear Window ( 1954 ).

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

Rear Admiral John L. Hall, ( Commander Task Force 124, the " Omaha " Beach Assault Force ), strongly disapproved of the amount of air and naval bombardment used.

The Western Task Force ( aimed at Casablanca ) comprised American units, with Major General George Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt heading the naval operations.

* Richard Antrim-American naval Rear Admiral ; World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient

Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske was at the vanguard of new technology in naval guns and gunnery, thanks to his innovations in fire control 1890 – 1910.

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN ( 25 October 1888 – 11 March 1957 ) was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration.

Captain Tirpitz became chief of the naval staff in 1892 and was made a Rear Admiral in 1895.

Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman ( April 23, 1889 – February 28, 1942 ) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack.

During the Spanish-American war of 1898, Cámara's Flying Relief Column was a naval task force of Spain's most powerful warships, under the command of Rear Admiral Manuel de la Cámara, to relieve Spanish forces in Manila after the defeat of Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón by the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

The complete naval task force, commanded by Rear Admiral Lyster, who had authored the plan of attack on Taranto, consisted of Illustrious, two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and four destroyers.

The Soviets requested a British naval presence off northern Russia and Rear Admiral Philip Vian visited Murmansk to assess the local situation.

In 1926, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, asked King if he would consider a transfer to naval aviation.

In that book, the author referred to Commodore Schley as a “ caitiff, poltroon and coward .” The proofs of the book had been read and approved by various naval officers, among them Rear Admiral Sampson.

The Japanese naval forces were divided into three groups: The " Advanced " force contained Junyō, plus two battleships, four heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and 10 destroyers, and was commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō in heavy cruiser ; the " Main Body " consisted of Shōkaku, Zuikaku, and Zuihō plus one heavy cruiser and eight destroyers, and was commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo in Shōkaku ; the " Vanguard " force contained two battleships, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and seven destroyers, and was commanded by Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe in battleship.

On the U. S. side, the and task groups — under the overall command of Rear Admiral Thomas Kinkaid — swept around to the north of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 25 searching for the Japanese naval forces.

Among the first four faculty members were Tasker H. Bliss, a future Army Chief of Staff, James R. Soley, the first civilian faculty member and a future Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and, most famously, Captain ( later, Rear Admiral ) Alfred Thayer Mahan, who soon became renowned for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide.

Following her post-shakedown availability, Triton deployed to European waters with the Second Fleet to participate in NATO exercises against British naval forces led by the aircraft carriers Ark Royal and Hermes under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Madden.

The prize system of the time allowed naval officers to profit from the capture of enemy ships, and this expedition earned Warren a fortune, a promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue, and a knighthood.

Samuel Francis Du Pont ( September 27, 1803 – June 23, 1865 ) was an American naval officer who achieved the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family ; he was the only member of his generation to use a capital D. He served prominently during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, was superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, and made significant contributions to the modernization of the U. S. Navy.

With Rear Admiral Shibazaki killed and their communication lines torn up, each unit was essentially acting in isolation, and had been since the naval bombardment had commenced.

Evdokiya's sister Ekaterina also married a naval officer, Rear Admiral Maksim Maksimovich Genning.

While in the U. S. Navy, Hattendorf also served ashore at the Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations ( Op-09B9 ), in Washington, D. C. in 1967 – 69, where he was first trained in naval history under Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller and Dr. William J. Morgan, and at the Naval War College in 1972 – 73.

The Romanian naval commander, Rear Admiral Horia Macellariu, was awarded the German Ritterkreuz after Operation 60, 000, the contingency plan for the evacuation of Crimea.