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Vice Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the United States Navy, Vice Admirals generally command the numbered fleets around the world that make up the naval components of each of the regional unified commands. A Vice Admiral is typically senior to a Rear Admiral and junior to an Admiral. 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice_Admiral   (179 words)

Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom is a now honorary office generally held by a senior retired Royal Navy admiral. He is the official deputy to the Lord High Admiral, an office vested in the Sovereign since 1964. The current Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom is the Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice-Admiral_of_the_United_Kingdom   (197 words)

United Kingdom: Lord High Admiral Admiral of England, or Lord Admiral, later Lord High Admiral was an office created in about 1400 by combining the responsibilities of Admiral of the North, and Admiral of the West. The anchor flag of the Lord High Admiral became known as the Admiralty Flag, and after 1850 was flown on land in London; over the old Admiralty Building until 1930, and on the tower of the new Admiralty Building overlooking Horse Guards Parade until 1964. As a result, the position of Lord High Admiral was taken out of commission, and now inheres in the Queen, who therefore flew the Admiralty flag on her yacht HMS Britannia when it was still in commission. www.fotw.us /flags/gb-lha.html   (1093 words)

Definition of Admiralty - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The Admiralty was the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as The Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, andc. In 1964 the functions of the Admiralty were transferred to a new Admiralty Board, which is a committee of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom and part of the Ministry of Defence. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lord_High_Admiral   (688 words)

Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide - William Blacksone, Commentaries on the Laws Of England The maritime courts, or such as have power and jurisdiction to determine all maritime injuries, arising upon the seas, or in parts out of the reach of the common law, are only the court of admiralty, and it's courts of appeal. The court of admiralty is held before the lord high admiral of England, or his deputy, who is called the judge of the court. But in case of prize vessels, taken in time of war, in any part of the world, and condemned in any courts of admiralty or vice-admiralty as lawful prize, the appeal lies to certain commissioners of appeals consisting chiefly of the privy council, and not to judges delegates. www.admiraltylawguide.com /documents/blackstone.html   (585 words)

Portal:United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland forms the United Kingdom's principal international land border, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the Channel Tunnel. The United Kingdom was formed by Acts of Union which united the Kingdom of England (which included Wales as a principality) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland as a single state under the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The modern "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" was the result of the partition of Ireland in 1922 between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which remained part of the United Kingdom. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiportal/United_Kingdom   (1499 words)

Admiral at AllExperts Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. As the word was used by people speaking Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the "d" and endured a series of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling "admyrall" in the 14th century and to "admiral" by the 16th century. The word Admiral has today come to be almost exclusively associated with the highest naval rank in most of the world's navies, equivalent to the Army rank of (Full) General. en.allexperts.com /e/a/ad/admiral.htm   (526 words)

United Kingdom: Lord High Admiral Admiral of England, or Lord Admiral, later Lord High Admiral was an office created in about 1400 by combining the responsibilities of Admiral of the North, and Admiral of the West. The anchor flag of the Lord High Admiral became known as the Admiralty Flag, and after 1850 was flown on land in London; over the old Admiralty Building until 1930, and on the tower of the new Admiralty Building overlooking Horse Guards Parade until 1964. As a result, the position of Lord High Admiral was taken out of commission, and now inheres in the Queen, who therefore flew the Admiralty flag on her yacht HMS Britannia when it was still in commission. atlasgeo.span.ch /fotw/flags/gb-lha.html   (1093 words)

United Kingdom - History of the Flag When King James VI of Scotland ascended to the English throne, thereby becoming James I of England, the national flags of England and Scotland on land continued to be, respectively, the red St George's cross and the white St Andrew's cross. The flag became 'the ensign armorial of the United Kingdom of Great Britain' as one of the provisions of the Act of Union in 1707, when the kingdoms of England and Scotland were united. During the reign of Queen Victoria, the Royal Standard was considered to be the Standard of the United Kingdom, and not the Standard of the Sovereign. flagspot.net /flags/gb-hist.html   (4172 words)

United Kingdom - MSN Encarta In 1800 the Irish Parliament approved an Act of Union that made Ireland an integral part of the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1798 British admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the French navy in Egypt (see Battle of the Nile), securing India’s safety throughout the war. The British policy of stopping and searching ships suspected of traveling to French-held areas of Europe led to the War of 1812 (1812-1815) between Britain and the United States. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553483_23/United_Kingdom.html   (1678 words)

Secret Intelligence Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia SIS is responsible for the United Kingdom's espionage activities overseas, as opposed to MI5 which is charged with internal security within the UK. Cumming died (in his office) in 1923 and was replaced as "C" by Admiral Sir Hugh 'Quex' Sinclair, who may have lacked the charisma of his predecessor, but was probably the first C with a coherent vision for the future of the agency. Scarlett is an unusually high profile appointment to the job, and a well known figure on television screens in the United Kingdom due to his evidence at the Hutton Inquiry. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service   (2803 words)

World InfoZone - United Kingdom Facts ST LUCIA was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814. MAURITIUS was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814. The Kingdom of LIBYA was established in 1951 after five years under a British administration appointed by the United Nations. www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=UnitedKingdom   (2617 words)

Amnesty UK: THE CASE OF GENERAL PINOCHET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The Swiss government has sent an extradition request to the United Kingdom in the case of a person with Chilean and Swiss citizenship who was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Argentina by members of DINA (Directorate of National Intelligence) of Chile, transferred to Chile and then "disappeared" in Chile. United Kingdom: The Secretary of State, Jack Straw, on 9 December 1998, issued an order to a magistrate authorizing the magistrate to proceed with a hearing on a request for extradition to Spain for acts amounting to crimes against humanity and torture committed in a third country. United Kingdom: The Secretary of State, Jack Straw, on 9 December 1998, issued an order authorizing magistrates to proceed with a hearing on a request for extradition to Spain of a former head of state for acts amounting to crimes against humanity and torture committed in a third country. www.amnesty.org.uk /news/pinochet/report.html   (11579 words)

Kent, United Kingdom The sails are symbols for the strong ties of the county with the sea and stand for the navy, the mercantile marine and fisheries. The flag to be flown in the diocese of Rochester is the flag of St George with, in the canton, a shield of the arms: Argent on a saltire gules an escallop or. The Admiralty replied that the title Admiral of the Medway did not confer the right to the proposed flag, which would contravene the Order in Council of 9 July 1864, that abolished Royal Navy Squadron Colours, and established the design of the flags of naval admirals. www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/gb-kent.html   (605 words)

Commander - Glasglidius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) A commander in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy is equivalent in rank to a lieutenant-colonel in the army. Other officers commanding units are usually referred to as the Officer Commanding (OC), Commanding Officer (CO), General Officer Commanding (GOC), or General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-C), depending on rank and position, although the term "commander" may be applied to them informally. Duty titles of many commanding officers in the United States Air Force are similar to ranks in the RAF. www.glasglow.com /e/index.php?title=Commander   (1100 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) By the time readers arrive at Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, his personal standards are all that matter to him. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies is a series of five novellas that cover three chronological years at the end of Hornblower's naval career. His title is now "Rear Admiral Lord Hornblower" and he has quite a small squadron which is mostly engaged in stopping pirates and the recently outlawed slave trade in the West Indies. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316289418   (675 words)

Royal Navy rank flags, 1801 -- 1864   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) After 1824, the red broad pennant was used by commodores with captains under them, now called commodores of the first class, while the blue broad pennant was used by commodores who were also captains of their own ships, now called commodores of the second class. Most vessels had no admiral or commodore aboard, and the captain was their highest officer. In the early 1700’ a different system of flags was devised for admirals to fly in their barges. users.sisna.com /justinb/ADMFLGS.HTML   (299 words)

United Kingdom News United Kingdom News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. A trio of financial authorities in the United Kingdom have published a report indicating that the core financial system could quickly recover from a major disruption, but there is still room for improvement. UNITED KINGDOM: Latest research into British pork production points to ways of lower cost of production. www.topix.net /world/united-kingdom   (687 words)

Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom) at AllExperts From its creation up until the mid-1990s, the Chief of the Defence Staff held the highest ranks in the British armed forces (equivalent to a US "five-star" rank) being an Admiral of the Fleet, a Field Marshal or Marshal of the Royal Air Force, depending on the service he was from. However, with the defence cuts, having a such a high rank serving officer was seen as too expensive, and too prestigious for the post-Cold War size of the British Armed Forces. *Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Fieldhouse (1 November 1985-9 December 1988) en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/chief_of_the_defence_staff_(united_kingdom).htm   (618 words)

[No title] The flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack, is a superposition of the flags of Saint George (for England), Saint Andrew (for Scotland) and Saint Patrick (for Ireland). Advertising in the United Kingdom is required to be legal, decent, honest, and truthful. The national flag of the United Kingdom is worn as a Jack at the bow by all HM ships in commission when alongside or when ‘dressed overall’. www.lycos.com /info/united-kingdom.html   (440 words)

News from the USIA Washington File The two boards were led by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Admiral William Crowe. Because of the related nature of the incidents, the two boards are chaired by the same individual, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Admiral William Crowe. Admiral Crowe's mandate was to investigate the embassy bombings and to recommend ways to approve security. www.fas.org /irp/news/1999/01/99010803_tlt.html   (1516 words)

United Kingdom: ensigns "Admiral of the yellow" or "yellow admiral" was a colloquial, somewhat sarcastic term for a flag officer without a flag. It promotes them both, but assigns Brown to a command as a rear admiral of the blue and leaves Smith sitting on the beach without an assignment--nowhere to hoist his admiral's flag. But everyone knew that admirals were all of a particular color--blue, white, or red. www.fotw.net /flags/gb-ensig.html   (1891 words)

[No title] The United Kingdom is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and is one of NATO's major European maritime, air, and land powers; it ranks third among NATO countries in total defense expenditure. In the United Nations, the United Kingdom is a permanent member of the Security Council. Revenues for the quarter were $169.6 million, an increase of 56.9% compared to revenues of $108.1 million for the same period last year and an increase of 19% compared to $142.5 million in the prior quarter. www.lycos.com /info/kingdom--united-kingdom.html   (616 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: England (Since the Reformation) The first formal step towards the putting away of Catherine appears to have been taken in 1527, when Henry caused himself to be cited before Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Warham on the charge of living incestuously with his brother's widow. The year after his accession an Act was passed "for the due execution of the Statutes against Jesuits, Seminary priests and other priests", which took away from Catholics the power of sending their children to be educated abroad, and of providing schools for them at home. This declaration was sovereignly displeasing to all parties in the House of Commons, who answered it by a resolution "that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended except by consent of Parliament", and refused supplies until the declaration was recalled. www.newadvent.org /cathen/05445a.htm   (13379 words)

United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The controversy here is comparable to that in the United States in that, while no connection has been proven, the government has been accused of dragging its feet in investigating the troubles and of holding back relevant data in a highly charged and emotional campaign by veterans and their families. Jones, who visited the United States as part of his research, wrote that some veterans may be genetically unable to cope with the combination of nerve gas tablets and exposure to organophosphate pesticides. The issue is doubly important because the plague vaccine was not licensed in the United Kingdom. members.aol.com /vetcenter/uk2.htm   (4046 words)

United Kingdom Evolution of the Union Jack as the flag of the United Kingdom In 1949 Admiral Sir W. Tennant offered the Union Jack, that had been flown as a Battle Ensign by HMS Nottingham at the Battle of Jutland (1916), to Nottingham Cathedral, noting that, "At Jutland we all flew very large Union Jacks from each masthead." [ADM 1/21533] The main Battle Ensign flown by HMS Exeter at the Battle of the River Plate remained in the possession of the commanding officer, and then passed to the Maritime Museum, while the second Battle Ensign went to the City of Exeter. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb.html   (3414 words)

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