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	Rear Admiral - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Admiral would in turn be assisted by a Vice, or Vice Admiral, who commanded the lead ships which would bear the brunt of a naval assault.
		In the rear of the Naval Squadron, a third Admiral would command the remaining ships and, as this section of the squadron was considered the least dangerous, the Admiral in command of the rear would typically be the most junior of the squadron Admirals.
		When the United States Navy abolished the rank of Commodore, Rear Admirals on the lower half of the promotion list assumed duties of one star admirals, although until the 1980s all Rear Admirals still wore two stars as their badge of rank.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/RADM (432 words)

	United Kingdom: Royal Navy rank flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1864 the 'three squadron' system of the Royal Navy was abolished, and all flag officers came under the St George's cross banner, flown by the admirals in the main masthead, by the vice admirals in the fore masthead, and by the rear admirals in the mizzen masthead.
		By the 1870's and the demise of the masted Navy, these 'boat flags' had come into general use on major ships, and the system was regularized in 1898 when the balls were increased in size to one half the canton, and the second (denoting a Rear-Admiral) necessarily moved from the upper to the lower hoist.
		"Admiral's flags" are 2:3, but the flag of an Admiral of the Fleet is not an "admiral's flag", it is the Union Flag.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb^nrank.html (951 words)

	Wikinfo \| Admiral
		The admiral's squadron wore a red ensign, the vice admiral's white, and the rear admiral's blue.
		The 1-star rank of Commodore in the Royal Navy is not considered a flag rank, and Commodores fly swallow-tailed pennants bearing the cross of St George and a single red ball in the upper hoist.
		In 1996 the rank of Admiral of the Fleet was put in abeyance in peacetime, except for members of the Royal family.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Admiral (1128 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > The Fleet Review at Spithead
		Other members of the Royal Family to witness the fleet review included The Prince of Wales, who is a Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy, and The Duchess of Cornwall.
		The Princess Royal, as Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy, was on board HMS ALBION and later RFA SIR BEDIVERE for the fleet review before attending a dinner at Southsea Castle.
		Her Royal Highness was accompanied throughout the day by her husband, Timothy Laurence, himself a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4271.asp (824 words)

	18th c. British Navy
		The plain white admiral's flag and the white ensign were easily confused with the white flags used by the French navy; accordingly, in 1702, the white flag of flag officers of the white squadron was replaced by a flag of St George throughout.
		As the Royal Navy's responsibilities in defending and extending a world-wide empire grew in the 18th century, the 17th century organisation into a single enormous fleet with nine flag officers commanding nine squadrons was abandoned.
		The Admiral of the Fleet flew the Union at the main.
	www.kipar.org /piratical-resources/british-navy.html (627 words)

	The Grand Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ADMIRAL JOHN R. British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859 at Southampton, England.
		Admiral Jellicoe's command of the Royal Navy's most important fleet was highlighted by the need to contain Germany's new navy while simultaneously maintaining a decisive commercial blockade.
		The Admiral led the largest fleet in the world through a period of enormous change, during which a number of new technologies threatened to sway the balance of power away from the battleships which composed a majority of British naval strength at the time.
	www.richthofen.com /jellicoe (293 words)

	Royal Navy: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty 1871-1936 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet from 1916-1919 and First Sea Lord for an unprecedented period between 1919-1927, Beatty was one of the most influential figures in the Royal Navy in the early decades of the twentieth century.
		On succeeding Admiral Jellicoe as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet at the end of 1916, Beatty issued a new set of battle instructions emphasising use of initiative and pursuit of the enemy.
		Convinced the Navy was the first line of Imperial defence, he stressed the need for a strong battlefleet and advocated the construction of a base at Singapore to meet the Japanese threat.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /static/pages/5803.html (829 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Admiral Anson (1697-1762).
		Anson, in addition to having a significant developmental impact on the British royal navy of the day, was very influential in the careers of both Warren and of Boscawen, admirals who did have a direct connection with Nova Scotia.
		One would be hard pressed to find a man of the royal British navy who was more decorated and honoured than George Anson: As a 15 year old he entered the navy, at 21 an officer and by 27 he was the captain of his own naval ship.
		Having defeated the French fleet off of Cape Finisterre, in 1747, Anson was made a vice-admiral and raised to the peerage.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Anson.htm (361 words)

	The Royal Navy
		The Royal Navy, unlike the army is comprised of a virtually unlimited number of officers who vie for the privilege to command naval vessels.
		Fleet Admirals are assigned by the Sea Lord.
		When the elements of the Royal Navy are not campaigning, it is assumed that they are doing their normal patrol duty and regular visitations to port for maintenance and victualing would be taking place.
	www.londonengarde.com /royalnavy.htm (1077 words)

	Warfleet.net \| Home of Enigma: Rising Tide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Consequently, for the British to maintain a close blockade, they needed a fleet perhaps three times larger than that of Germany, in order to permit enough ships to maintain the blockade while their sisters were back in port taking on coal.
		Admiral Hugo von Pohl, commander of the German High Seas Fleet, prudently resisted this temptation, aided by the Kaiser, but in February 1916, he was replaced by Admiral Reinhardt von Scheer, a far more aggressive strategist.
		Whereas the Royal Navy had lost three battlecruisers, three cruisers, and eight destroyers with a total of 6,100 casualties, the High Seas Fleet had lost only one battleship, four light cruisers, and three destroyers with an accompanying total of 2,550 casualties.
	www.warfleet.net /history/rl_jutland.htm (2692 words)

	Admiral of the Fleet - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Admiral of the Fleet is a supreme naval position that has existed in historical navies and still exists in several modern-day navies.
		Admiral of the Fleet can trace its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title was typically granted to a nobleman who was appointed by a monarch to raise and command a navy for a specific campaign.
		Some nations consider the rank of Admiral of the Fleet and Fleet Admiral to be synonymous.
	www.medbib.com /Admiral_of_the_Fleet (175 words)

	Royal Navy: Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope 1883-1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most famous British admiral during the Second World War Andrew B. Cunningham, or ABC as he was known in the navy, had a superb fighting record in the early war years and served as First Sea Lord between 1943 — 1946.
		Entering the navy as a cadet aboard the training ship HMS Britannia in 1897, Cunningham fought in the Naval Brigade during the South African War of 1899-1902.
		Without air cover Cunningham’s fleet suffered serious losses but responded magnificently to his call that the ‘Navy must not let the army down.’ Out of 22,000 troops on Crete 16,500 were rescued but three cruisers and six destroyers were sunk and a further 15 major warships damaged.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /static/pages/3522.html (650 words)

	THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR 1805 LORD NELSON 1758 TO 1805 ADMIRAL OF THE BRITISH FLEET AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
		A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet consisting of 33 ships of the line west of Cape Trafalgar in southwest Spain.
		To do this he had to ensure that the Royal Navy would be unable to disrupt the invasion flotilla while the invasion was in progress.
		Following the battle, the Royal Navy was never again seriously challenged by the French fleet in a large scale engagement.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/the_battle_of_trafalgar.htm (1967 words)

	Royal Naval History - Royal Navy
		The Navy News, the official newspaper of the Royal Navy.
		The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy is the definitive one-volume history of the Royal Navy.
		In 1914 the Royal Navy was the largest in the world, as the 'two power standard' meant that it had to be equal to the combined strength of any two other fleets.
	www.royal-navy.org (392 words)

	Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most of the Home Fleet’s cruisers were fine, modern ships, but many of those at sea at the opening of hostilities on the Northern Patrol enforcing the immediately declared blockade of Germany were obsolescent light cruisers of the C and D classes, laid down at the end of the First World War.
		Furthermore, Admiral Forbes was never wedded to a rigid “battle fleet concept”; in fact, within two weeks of the outbreak of war the command structure of the Home Fleet (as outlined in Table 1) was scrapped, and a system of groups (similar to the famous American task forces of the Pacific War) was introduced.
		Admirals of the Fleet Lord Cork, Keyes, and Drax each had his own weaknesses, and they were all considered too long retired to take the First Sea Lord’s chair.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/1999/autumn/art5-a99.htm (7568 words)

	Royal Navy
		After the outbreak of the First World War, most of the Royal Navy's large ships were stationed at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys or Rosyth in Scotland in readiness to stop any large-scale breakout attempt by the Germans.
		Admiral Hipper planned to make another raid on 23rd January, 1915, but this time his fleet was intercepted by Admiral David Beatty and six fast cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers.
		The Royal Navy was shocked by the outcome considering that it clearly outnumbered outnumbered German forces (151 to 99).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWnavy.htm (640 words)

	Admiral - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		Admiral is a military rank, the equivalent of which is used by the service organizations of many civilizations.
		As a traditional grade, admiral is the most senior flag officer rank of a naval organization, senior to a captain.
		Many rank systems, including that used by various incarnations of Starfleet, have been known to use several grades of the admiral rank, which include, in order from most senior: fleet admiral, admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral and rear admiral lower half (also known simply as commodore).
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Admiral (280 words)

	Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral of the Fleet is a rank of the British Royal Navy and other navies, the equivalent of Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy.
		Admiral of the Fleet has a NATO ranking code of OF-10, equivalent to a Marshal of the Royal Air Force or a Field Marshal in the British Army.
		Admiral of the Fleet is also used as a title in some of the world's militaries for the most senior officer of the fleet or Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral_of_the_Fleet_(Royal_Navy) (976 words)

	ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINES \| THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY, HISTORY, SHIPS, CAREERS AND CONTACT LINKS - ...
		Holland one, the Royal Navy’s first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers, Sons and Maxim Ltd. (now BAE Systems Marine, Barrow) amidst great controversy in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power.
		The Royal Navy Submarine Museum looks after the heritage of a remarkable service whose reluctant conception and fragile birth into the Royal Navy in 1901 established the fighting service that today operates the most powerful ships in the Fleet and maintains the strategic and sub-strategic National Deterrent.
		The Royal Marines Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all aspects of Royal Marines history.
	www.solarnavigator.net /royal_navy_submarines.htm (947 words)

	Royal Navy, warships, WW2, battleships, battlecruisers, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, escorts
		The Royal Navy would be responsible for the North Sea and most of the Atlantic, although the French would contribute some forces.
		Troop convoys were always heavily escorted, and the Commonwealth Navies played an important part in protecting the men as they left their home shores.
		"Admiral Graf Spee" in the South and "Deutschland" in the North Atlantic.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm (1305 words)

	IRAQ2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Field Marshal Royal Iraq Army, and Admiral of the Fleet Royal Iraqi Navy.
		Field Marshal Royal Iraq Army, Admiral of the Fleet Royal Iraqi Navy, and Marshal of the Royal Iraqi Air Force 8/9/1933.
		Field Marshal Royal Iraq Army, Admiral of the Fleet Royal Iraqi Navy, and Marshal of the Royal Iraqi Air Force 2/5/1953.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Iraq/iraq2.htm (1048 words)

	Family history \| Royal Navy
		The Royal Navy is the senior service of the armed forces of the Crown and has a long and distinguished history.
		What they did was divide the various grades of Admiral, running from Admiral of the Red, Admiral of the White etc through Vice-Admirals´; down to Rear Admiral of the White and Rear Admiral of the Blue.
		The three squadrons were abolished in 1863 and from then on the white ensign was flown by all Royal Navy ships.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /familyhistory/guide/navy/default.htm (295 words)

	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, it was the largest and most powerful navy in the world, helping to establish the British Empire as the dominant power of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
		By the end of the 19th century though, the Royal Navy, despite being the largest in the world, was not as powerful as it seemed to be.
		At the beginning of the 1990s, the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War with a focus on blue water ASW, its purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic, complemented by the nuclear deterrent submarine force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Navy (5772 words)

	Portugal - rank flags of the portuguese navy
		The illustrations I have seen show that the rank emblems are set towards the hoist (and towards the fly for the red ball in the fourth quarter of the "flag officer afloat" flag).
		These flags are obviously based on the British system but due to the small size of the Portugese Navy there is no “admiral of the fleet” rank and the only two full admirals are the chief of staff and the fleet commander, who have individual, distinctive flags.
		I imagine, though, that the navy ministerʼs flag is still valid (strictly speaking, this is not a naval rank flag anyway).
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/pt~rank.html (688 words)

	Admiral U. Furashita's Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Admiral U. Furashita" is an IJN pen-name for me, Craig Burke.
		Not content with history, I developed the "Grand Fleet" scenarios for fun.
		The illustrations in the "Grand Fleet" monographs come largely from Siegfried Breyer's "Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970," with generous cutting, pasting, and drawing by Craig Burke (a.k.a.
	www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/furamain.htm (387 words)

	Admiral Danish Fleet Headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ADMIRAL DANISH FLEET headquarters is a modern establishment, especially designed to deal with matters and incidents Denmarks geographical position by the sea dictates.
		A substantial portion of the personel are operating 24/7 functions in the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.
		ADMIRAL DANISH FLEET is the overall responsible for military security and safety at sea, including pollution combating at sea.
	forsvaret.dk /SOK/eng (191 words)

	DryDock Models :: Royal Navy Flags and Pennants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Royal Navy steam vessels no longer carried three masts, the boat flag system was adopted to show senior officers’ rank.
		I was wondering if anyone knows the origin of the term Rear in "Rear Admiral." I noticed from the diagrams above that the Admiral flies his flag from the main mast, while the Vice Admiral uses the foremast and the Rear Admiral flies his on the mizzen (rear mast).
		One area that I researched stated that the term Admiral is Arabic in origin and means "Commander of the Seas." Vice (as in Vice Admiral) is Latin in origin and implies being a deputy or serving under.
	forum.drydockmodels.com /viewtopic.php?p=577 (1008 words)

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