Having such a strong background in administration, and being an expert on East Pakistan affairs, General Yahya Khan appointed Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan as Martial Law Administrator, with absolute authority in his command.

Zia planned the Coup d ' état carefully, as he knew Bhutto had integral intelligence in the Pakistan Armed Forces, and many officers, including Chief of Air Staff General Zulfiqar Ali Khan and Major-General Tajammul Hussain Malik, GOC of 23rd Mountain Division, Major-General Naseerullah Babar, DG of Directorate-General for the Military Intelligence ( DGMO ) and Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, were loyal to Bhutto.

Martial Law Administrator of East Pakistan and unified Commander of Pakistan's Eastern Military High Command Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan objected to the pre-planned operation.

Inexperienced and the large magnitude of this assignment, the government sent Vice-Admiral Mohammad Shariff as second-in-command of General Niazi.

The commission called for the courts-martial of the PAF's Lieutenant-General Enamul Haq — Air Officer Commanding of Eastern Military Air Command of Pakistan Air Force, Vice-Admiral Mohammad Shariff — Commander of the Naval Eastern Command of Pakistan Navy, and Lieutenant-General Tikka Khan — General Officer Commanding of Army Eastern Command of Pakistan Army — and former generals Amir Khan Nazi and Rao Farman Ali.

Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, Commander in Chief of the High Seas Fleet, pressed for all-out U-boat war, convinced that a high rate of shipping losses would force Britain to seek an early peace before the United States could react effectively.

The Chief of the Admiralty War Staff — Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee — requested additional ships be sent to reinforce Cradock, but this was vetoed by First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Prince Louis of Battenberg.

Chief of Staff at the Admiralty was Vice-Admiral Doveton Sturdee.

Her late husband was former Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Dudley Anderson.

* Son of He Long, He Pengfei ( 贺鹏飞 ), Deputy Commander in Chief of the Chinese Navy, Vice-Admiral

He was succeeded as 3rd Earl by his younger brother, who was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1766 to 1767.

* Jon Pertwee – Chief Petty Officer Pertwee, Commander Weatherby, Vice-Admiral " Burbly " Burwasher, The Master, Commander Bell

Khan later promoted Vice-Admiral Yastur-ul-Haq Malik as 4-star Admiral, and appointed him as Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy.

He was also involved in skirmishes with the then Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Vishnu Bhagwat, over promotion of Vice-Admiral Harinder Singh as Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

Left to right: Lieutenant Commander G. P. Vollmer ( Secretary to Chief of Staff ); Lieutenant Commander R. N. Heard ; Vice-Admiral C. S. Daniel ( seated ) Vice Admiral ( Administration ); Commodore W. G. Andrews ; Captain E. H. Shattock ( concealed ); Captain R. C. Duckworth ; Lieutenant S. G. Warrender.

Some critics questioned the reason for the existence of three versions of the Silver Star citation with variations in the wording, the first being signed by Vice-Admiral Zumwalt, as Commander, U. S. Naval Forces, Vietnam, the second being signed by Admiral John Hyland as Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet, and the third being signed by John Lehman, as Secretary of the Navy.

* Base Naval " 27 de Febrero ", located in the city of Santo Domingo, the Chief of Staff and the Naval Academy " Vice-Admiral Cesar de Windt Lavandier " are located here.

As Naval Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden, commander of the Royal Navy squadron off the Dardanelles during early 1915, Commodore Keyes was heavily involved in the organisation of the Dardanelles Campaign.

* Sir Philip Watson ( b. 1919 ), Vice-Admiral R. N., Chief Naval Engineer Officer, 1974 – 77, and chairman of Marconi Radar Systems, 1981 – 85, 88.

In 1943, British Chief of Combined Operations, Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten proposed Operation Constellation, an offensive against the Channel Islands, Operation Concertina, an offensive against Alderney, Operation Coverlet, the offensive against Guernsey, and Operation Condor, the offensive against Jersey.

* Vice-Admiral Bruce Donaldson — Vice Chief of the Defence Staff

* Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison — Chief of the Maritime Staff

The Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force would be Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham ; his deputy was Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who would plan the ground effort.

Naval forces were commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Burrough.

The Sixth Fleet commander, typically a 3-Star US Navy Vice-Admiral, has operational control of Naval task forces, battle groups, amphibious forces, support ships, land-based surveillance aircraft, and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea.

Hardy went on to reach the apex of the naval service, becoming First Naval Lord at the Admiralty in November 1830 and reaching the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue in January 1837.

On 1 October 1902, the Admiral Superintendent Naval Reserves, then Vice-Admiral Gerard Noel, was given the additional appointment of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and allotted a rear-admiral to serve under him as commander of the Home Squadron.

The main participants during these discussions were Rear Admiral A. L. St. G. Lyster,, Rear-Admiral H. M. Burrough,, Vice-Admiral E. N. Syfret, and the Naval Staff.

* 25 – Naval operations: Second attack on the Dardanelles, led by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck aboard Vengeance.

He was also appointed Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom, a ceremonial position, and he became President of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.

* Vice-Admiral Sir John Gilchrist Inglis ( 1906 – 1972 ), British naval officer and head of Naval Intelligence

However, through a decree by King George IV, on 23 March 1830, Vice-Admiral Sir P. Malcolm laid down the foundation stone of a Naval Hospital on the site where Villa Bighi was situated after it was pulled down.

When the Japanese launched their invasion of Malaya on December 8, 1941, Spooner initially had two immediate superiors: Admiral Sir Tom Philips ( C-in-C Eastern Fleet ) and Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton ( Senior Naval Officer, Malaya ).

* Vice-Admiral John Henry Godfrey ( 1888 – 1970 ), head of British Department of Naval Intelligence during World War II and later head of the Royal Indian Navy

Sir Gilbert Owen Stephenson KBE, CB, CMG, DL ( 13 February 1878 – 27 May 1972 ) was a British Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, a pioneer of anti-submarine techniques in World War I, and most famous as an important Naval training commandant during World War II.

The protocols were historically ratified and signed on 11 November 2008 at Kuwait Naval Base in the presence of Vice-Admiral Gourtney USN, commander of the United States Naval Forces Central Command based in Bahrain and remain an enduring success story in the region highlighting co-operation and co-ordination between the two countries.

Notable persons to have publicly stated that UFO evidence is being suppressed include Senator Barry Goldwater, Admiral Lord Hill-Norton ( former NATO head and chief of the British Defence Staff ), Brigadier-General Arthur Exon ( former commanding officer of Wright-Patterson AFB ), Vice-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ( first CIA director ), astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell, former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, and the 1999 French COMETA report by various French generals and aerospace experts.

He gained a reprieve, however, due to the commencement of war and in 1940 was appointed as Operations Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay.

Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker laid down destroyer duties for the Royal Navy:

William Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire.

* 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

In the Royal Navy the rank of vice-admiral should be distinguished from the office of " Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom ", which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired " full " admiral, and that of " Vice-Admiral of the Coast ", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.

* James Stockdale ( 1946, deceased )-Retired Vice-Admiral, US Navy & Former U. S. Vice-Presidential candidate, member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.

The Royal Navy — with assistance from other Allied navies in the far east — had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru and Samoa early in the war, instead of searching for Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee's German East Asia Squadron which had abandoned its base at the German concession at Tsingtao in China once Japan entered the war on Britain's side.

Initially Childers had the support of the influential Controller of the Navy, Vice-Admiral Sir

James Arthur Murray ( 1790 – 1860 ), only son of Lord William Murray, third son of the third Duke, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His son John Murray-Aynsley was the father of 1 ) Charles Murray-Aynsley ( 1821 – 1901 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; 2 ) George Herbert Murray-Aynsley ( 1826 – 1887 ), a Major-General in the Madras Army, and 3 ) Hugh Murray-Aynsley, a New Zealand politician.

His son Reverend Charles Villiers was the father of 1 ) Edward Cecil Villiers, a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, whose son Sir Michael Villiers was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and Fourth Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963, and 2 ) Ernest Amherst Villiers, Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton from 1906 to 1910.

Lord William Gordon ( 1744 – 1823 ), second son of the third Duke, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

He initially served in the Royal Navy and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral.

George Fowler Hastings, second son of the twelfth ( or eleventh ) Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His third son Edward Henry Howard was a Vice-Admiral in the Navy.

Arthur Paget ( 1839 – 1924 ), son of Stewart Paget, eldest son of Sir Arthur Paget, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

Sir Charles Paget, fifth son of the first Earl of the 1784 creation, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His third son, Sir William Hope-Johnstone ( 1766 – 1831 ) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His grandson Basil Edward Cochrane was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.