* September 5 – The Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.

There were many new riots ; on 20 August, Johan de Witt visited his brother in prison ; both were then murdered by an Orangist civil militia that had been instructed by Tromp, the Orangist admiral.

Breslau then proceeded to play a leading role in the destruction of Ottoman admiral Tahir Pasha's flagship, the Ghiuh Rewan ( 84 ), and at least 4 frigates.

In 1659 the city was captured by the Swedes and relieved by an expeditionary fleet sent by the Dutch, then Denmark's allies, commanded by admiral De Ruyter.

He rose rapidly to the rank of captain and then to that of admiral.

After promotion to rear admiral in 1937, he commanded Cruiser Division Seven on a diplomatic cruise to South America and then became Commander of Cruisers, Battle Force, in 1939.

After stints as Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Commander of the IJN 2nd Fleet, then the IJN 3rd Fleet, then Kure Naval District, he became a full admiral on 3 August 1923.

* 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.

Hood made an unsuccessful attempt in January 1782 to save them from capture, with 22 ships to 29, and the series of bold movements by which he first turned the French out of their anchorage at Basseterre of St Kitts and then beat off their attacks, were one of the best accomplishments of any British admiral during the war.

Since then the staff has operated as a single entity with a four star admiral who serves as Commander, Naval Forces Europe and Commander, Naval Forces Africa.

The rank evolved from sailing days and the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy when the fleet was divided into three divisions-Red, White, or Blue.

Unfortunately for the invasion, Aristagoras quarrelled with the admiral Megabates, who then informed the Naxians that the fleet was coming.

She is quickly captured by an admiral of the Armada, then rescued by a group of Blue Rogues, among them fellow protagonists Vyse and Aika.

The three soon reunite, along with a fellow Blue Rogue named Gilder, but are then captured by vice admiral Ramirez and brought to the Valuans ' impenetratable prison fortress.

He went on to be Director of Naval Staff Duties at the Ministry of Defence in August 1989 and then, following promotion to rear admiral he became Flag Officer Sea Training in July 1991.

He joined Turgut Reis, who was then the most feared corsair in the Mediterranean as well as an Ottoman admiral and Bey of Tripoli.

The island was first known as Allright Island, then Alwright, and then Saunders, after sir Charles Saunders, a British admiral who accompanied General James Wolfe to Quebec City in 1759.

In recognition of this service, in 1815 he was made a Knight Commander of the Bath and then a vice admiral on 10 July 1821.

De Winter then summoned the ship's carpenter and ordered him to repair his barge, so that the admiral could transfer command to another ship and continue the battle.

His escape was very remarkable-having first seen the rear admiral get onto a piece of her quarter-deck when the ship was breaking up, and then get washed off again, Atkins was tossed by a wave into the Stirling Castle, which sank soon after.

Kurita became a rear admiral on November 15, 1938 commanding the 1st Destroyer Flotilla then the 4th Destroyer Flotilla.

After conferring with his captains, the admiral decided that the French target must be Egypt and set off in pursuit.

The French captains had been taken by surprise by the speed of the British advance, and were still aboard Orient in conference with the admiral when the firing started.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

Now, let us say that the purpose is not legal entitlement, but rather, the following situation: The admiral of the fleet believes that captains and crews who have fought alongside each other are more effective than captains and crews who are strangers to each other.

It was apparently officered by Europeans, and its first admiral was an Englishman ; by 1768 its admiral was a Mysorean cavalry officer named Ali Bey ( or Lutf Ali Beg ), apparently chosen by Hyder because he did not trust the European captains.

He became rear admiral in 1906 by an act of Congress promoting all retired captains who had served in the Civil War.

On a remote station, when an admiral would have to draw on the captains on station, it would be a different matter.

One of the Dutch captains at the battle was son of Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, Cornelis Tromp, who was to become a famous admiral himself.

: 2: A formal rank in the mid-19th century United States Navy, conveyed temporarily upon senior captains in command of squadrons of ships, soon rendered obsolete by the creation of the ranks of commdore and rear admiral.

The rank of Commodore Admiral was established as the Navy's one-star admiral rank after nearly forty years of all Navy captains receiving promotion directly to the two-star position of rear admiral.

This had been a major problem in World War II when cultural mistakes had led to several Navy commodores being regarded as senior captains by members of foreign militaries and in turn denied honors due to a U. S. admiral grade officer.

As the inevitable Battle off Cape Trafalgar came closer, Northesk was largely left out of the planning of the encounter, partly because he was the third most senior admiral present behind Nelson and Collingwood and partly because unlike most of the captains at the battle, Northesk had never worked with Nelson before and was not a member of the famous Band of Brothers.

) Another way was to promote captains to the rank of admiral without distinction of squadron ( a practice known as yellowing — the captain so raised became known as a yellow admiral ).

The Enterprise must transport a legendary geriatric admiral who must once again negotiate a hostage situation.

The mentally unstable admiral decides that " The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor.

It must be said that the actual power of the admiral was rather small, partly because of the creation of other admirals ( the Admiral of the Levant for Provence, the Admiral of Brittany, and the Admiral of the West for Guyenne ), and because of the creation of the General of the Galleys and the Secretary of State for the Navy.

The Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) is a statutory office () held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior naval officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy.

Finally, Themistocles agrees that Athens ' navy serve under a Spartan admiral to achieve the unity of the Greek states.

Graves, despite the controversy over his conduct in this battle, continued to serve, rising to full admiral and receiving an Irish peerage.

Rupert continued to serve as an admiral in the Royal Navy throughout the period, ultimately rising to the rank of " General at Sea and Land ".

As admiral he flew his flag for a short time in 1790, but did not serve in the French Revolutionary Wars.

The King of Spain appointed him the admiral of a fleet which was to serve in the Levant, but the only result of his extensive preparations was an unsuccessful expedition against the island of Mitylene.

The duke retained his posts of admiral of the ocean and captain-general of Andalusia, and continued to serve Philip II and later Philip III.

Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. ( June 4, 1922 – October 22, 2004 ) was an African-American pioneer in the United States Navy — the first African American in the U. S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral.

Forrest Percival Sherman ( 30 October 1896 – 22 July 1951 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations until Admiral Elmo Zumwalt became Chief of Naval Operations in 1970.

Soon after retiring as a full admiral in 1897, Walker was chosen to serve as President of the Nicaragua Canal Commission.

The assignment was a temporary one and he went on to serve at sea again, rising to the rank of admiral.

Finally, Athenian archon and political leader, Themistocles, agreed that Athens ' navy serve under a Spartan admiral to achieve the unity of the Greek states.

The 68-year old admiral was forcibly retired in October after an unrelated argument with First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Spencer, but was reinstated in 1796 and continued to serve in command of the Channel Fleet until 1800.