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	Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers.
		Admiral of the Navy was only ever held by one U.S. officer, George Dewey.
		Although not a real Admiral, he was a commissioned officer, discharged honorably with the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral (584 words)

	Coastal Forces,The escape of the 2nd MTB Flotilla by Buddy Hide from Lewes, Sussex, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Admiral Chan Chak who led the shadow Government in the Colony and his party had a gentleman's agreement with the British authorities that they would be returned to Free China in the event that the Japanese over-ran the Colony.
		To the Admiral's surprise they all turned up at his office and after protracted negotiations and financial imbursement with all the leaders and sub-leaders of the Triad gangs the uprising was called off.
		Admiral Chan Chak then advised that the MTB's shape course for the small village of Namoa [Nam O] in the province of Kwangtung on the Mainland that was not occupied by the Japanese.
	www.hamstat.demon.co.uk /HongKong/index_hk.html (2919 words)

	Caspian Flotilla - Morskoyo Flota ( Naval Force)
		An example of further development and growth of the military power of Caspian flotilla is the transfer of new contemporary destroyer escort "tatarstan" to the composition of flotilla, patronage of which had the administration of federal state unitary enterprise "ON the plant im.
		The ships and the parts of the Caspian flotilla obtained the appreciation of the alert from the President of the Russian Federation Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich and this it makes it possible to say on the sums of the carried out studies that the southern boundaries of Russia are reliably protected.
		Beginning from 1942, Caspian flotilla was declared and accomplished tasks in the guarantee of communications by that acting, directly covering on the passages from the action of the aviation of enemy by its ships of transport, and it organized anti-mine defense.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/mf-caspian.htm (2394 words)

	Rear Admiral Rembrandt C. Robinson, U.S. Navy
		Admiral Robinson was killed in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Tonkin on May 8, 1972, during a landing approach to his flagship, the guided missile light cruiser USS Providence (CLG-6) while coordinating the cruiser-destroyer attack on the Don Son Peninsula and Haiphong, North Vietnam.
		Admiral Robinson was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1924, son of Issac H. and Helen M. (Bailey) Robinson.
		At this time, Admiral Robinson, at age 44, was one of the youngest officers selected to Flag rank in the history of the U.S. Navy and was the third time he had been selected for early promotion.
	www.rear-admiral-rc-robinson.com (910 words)

	Soviet Amphibious Operations In The Black Sea, 1941-1943
		Admiral Isakov's 1931 writings, while offering no definition of amphibious operations, specified and briefly expounded upon their types, scale, stages, and complexity.5 He listed three types: a strategic landing, a tactical landing, and a raiding party.
		Arguments among generals and admirals in Moscow over the selection of the Odessa Defensive Area commander generated confusing and conflicting telegrams and orders in the early days of the defense.18 Overlapping responsibilities in the chain of command came to Stalin's attention in August, but the issue was not resolved for several weeks.
		The German 3d Flotilla blockaded resupply boats in what has been characterized as a battle from the the days of pirates.55 Soviet and German sailors fought in the middle of the straits at pistol range and less, usually at night because daytime crossings for resupply and reinforcement were too risky.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1995/ACB.htm (7388 words)

	XIV ISS - Naval Participation in Operation Other Than War Panel Discussion
		Admiral Martínez, Admiral Johnson, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it is a very real pleasure for me to be a member of this distinguished panel.
		In his statement the Admiral underscored the political utility of military forces and asserted his belief that politico-military interaction at different levels is likely to be introduced in the management of war affairs.
		Admiral Hutson described the robust regime that exists within the law of the sea and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention concerning the drug trade.
	www.intellnet.org /documents/500/020/524.htm (10531 words)

	Submarine Pioneers-Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Admiral Thomas C. Hart, born in 1877 in Gennessee, Michigan, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1897.
		Rear Admiral Allan R. McCann, played a major role in submarine rescue, by developing the diving bell that helped rescue 33 crewmen from the USS Squalus (SS-192) in May 1939, when she sank in 240 feet of water off Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
		Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was born in Poland on 27 January 1900, just a few months before the American submarine force came into existence.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/history/pioneers4.html (2733 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE BATTLE OFF SAMAR
		Admiral Kurita said to his officers before the battle: “I know many of you are strongly opposed to this assignment.
		Admiral Halsey was very much pleased by his carrier pilots’ reports of their successes over the Sibnyan Sea.
		Admiral Kurita, aboard the Yamato, was thus out of touch with the action, a development that was to produce unhappy consequences for the Japanese.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/1/1966_1_20.shtml (6651 words)

	NATO Who's who?: ChoD Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Admiral Moreno was born in Madrid in 1940.
		Admiral Moreno graduated in the Naval War College, and is a Specialist in Submarines and Electronics.
		Admiral Moreno is married to Pepa Deckler Andreu and they have four children.
	www.nato.int /cv/chod/sp/moreno.htm (258 words)

	Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
		Consequently Admiral Schmidt gave orders to the mine-sweepers to remove their gear and make room for the Fleet; he preferred taking the risk of negotiating the rest of the passage without the security afforded by the mine-sweeper's to endangering the success of the whole enterprise.
		The boats of the Rosenberg Flotilla established communication with the bridgehead at Orissa, and this was maintained until the troops had crossed.
		Admiral Meurer's energy succeeded in overcoming all the hindrances which were due in part to the ice conditions and in part to the difficulties of navigation in these rock-infested waters.
	www.richthofen.com /scheer/scheer16.htm (2961 words)

	Latvia - Military and Naval Rank flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Flotilla Admiral's Flag - In the upper corner, in the middle of the white quadrilateral, which tights to the mast, is situated a carmine ring.
		"Vice Admiral's Flag - In the upper and in the lower corners, in the middle of the white quadrilateral, which tight to the mast, and in the upper corner outside are situated carmine rings (one in each quadrilateral).
		The Pendant of Commander of Flotilla uses: The Pendant of Commander of Flotilla shows, that War (Coast Guard's) ships unit are under the command of Commander of Flotilla.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/lv-rank.html (1666 words)

	Admiral Benelux
		Admiral Benelux (ABNL) is the position (not a rank) of the officer who holds operational command of the combined Netherlands and Belgian fleets for operational and training purposes under an arrangement set up in 1996.
		There are currently only three copies of the flag of Admiral Benelux, which is used only on the land grounds of the "Admiralty", located in Den Helder, on the northernmost part of the province of North-Holland.
		The Belgian Flotilla Admiral J. Rosiers proposed for Admiral Benelux a flag which was not accepted.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ben~adm.html (387 words)

	Operations of the Western Flotilla, Part I
		The Pensacola and the Potomac flotilla and the seaboard navy yards required nearly all of the remaining unemployed seamen.
		While Foote was improvising a flotilla for the western rivers he was making urgent appeals to the government for seamen.
		Admiral Foote was at St. Louis when the battle of Belmont was fought, and, it appears, rnade no report to the Secretary of the Navy of the part which the gun-boats took in the action.
	www.rugreview.com /cw/cwg1.htm (3911 words)

	The Black Sea Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Russian fleet was under the command of Admiral Pyotr Bredal, a veteran of the fleet of Peter I. Admiral Bredal's ships encircled the fortress, already under siege by Russian troops.
		The commander of the flotilla Vice-Admiral Naum Sinyavin and his successor Rear Admiral Vasily Dmitriev-Mamonov were among the victims.
		As soon as the Ottoman Empire presented an ultima-tum, Catherine II confirmed the decrees rees-tablishing the Azov flotilla, the base of the fu-ture Black Sea fleet, and sent squadrons from that fleet into the Mediterranean.
	www.neva.ru /EXPO96/book/chap3-3.html (846 words)

	Richmond Hobson and the sinking of the Merrimac
		Admiral Cervera was a respected naval officer and not a man fearful to do his job, but the orders sending his flotilla to meet the American warships in the Caribbean gave him an ominous foreboding of disaster.
		The Admiral approved it in its entirety, then set the men of the New York to the tasks of preparing the ten water-tight canisters that, when filled with nearly 80 pounds of brown powder, would be strapped below the water line on the port side of the Merrimac.
		For all practical purposes, it appeared to be a suicide mission, attempting to sail the old ship directly into the guns of the enemy, sink her, and then escape and evade the enemy to return on a small catamaran carried on the deck of the doomed collier.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wallofhonor/spanish_am/05_hobson.html (5237 words)

	B-P's Grandfather: Admiral William Henry Smyth
		The French flotilla attempted to get into the Trocadero Creek near Puerta Real on the night of the 14th but the British gunboats drove some into the Rio Guadalete and others into the Rio San Pedro, from where they were transported overland to the creek.
		Admiral Smyth’s wife, Eliza Anne Warington, known as "Annarella,” was born April 3, 1788 in Naples She Died January 9,1873 in Paddington at age 84; and is buried at Stone, Buckinghamshire.
		Admiral Smyth was a founding member of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1836.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-admiral.htm (5296 words)

	Naval Rank Flags (Sweden)
		Until 1972, the flag of a vice admiral had two stars (like the present flag of a rear admiral).
		Until 1972, the flag of a rear admiral had one star (like the present flag of a flotilla admiral).
		Source: Album des pavillons (2000) The rank of flottiljamiral [flotilla admiral, equivalent to brigadier general] was introduced only in 2001.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/se~.html (581 words)

	Great Britain: Flotilla marks Nelson anniversary (Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Hero of Trafalgar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The flotilla slowed near Tower Bridge to receive a 15-gun salute from HMS Belfast and the rowers raised their oars skywards to acknowledge the tribute.
		A flotilla of 70 boats, complete with Royal Navy VIPs, actors in 18th century dress and descendants of the man himself, rowed a choppy Thames in a re-enactment of Nelson's last journey.
		With the enemy admiral disabled, Nelson knew his skilled captains could wipe out the rest of the opposing fleet in the remaining hours of daylight.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1486703/posts (5805 words)

	Belgium: Naval rank flags
		The number of stars depends of the rank of the officer holding the position, being either three (Vice Admiral) or 2 (Division Admiral, that is a Rear Admiral).
		According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of a Flotilla Admiral is square, Navy blue with one white star in canton.
		When the COMOPSNAV holds rank of Flotilla Admiral, the flag has a white star added in canton.
	flagspot.net /flags/be~rk.html (427 words)

	The FAME: Yugoslavia, 1956 - 1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Admiral of the Fleet rank flag was white with the tricolour bars border and with a blue fouled anchor.
		The Admiral rank flag was white with the tricolour bars border and with a yellow anchor in the canton.
		The Admiral rank flag was blue with the tricolour bars border and with a yellow anchor in the canton.
	jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/yu-fnrj2.html (1256 words)

	Operations of the Western Flotilla, Part II
		Colonel Buford, who commanded the land forces temporarily with the flotilla, assisted me in preparing for the trip, and on the night of the 4th brought on board Captain Hollenstein, of the Forty-second Illinois, and twenty-three sharp-shooters of his command, who volunteered their services, which were gratefully accepted.
		There was so much illness at that time in the flotilla that about a third of the officers and men were under medical treatment, and a great many were unfit for duty.
		Chief of all results of the work of the flotilla was the opening of the Mississippi River once and for all from Cairo to Memphis.
	www.rugreview.com /cw/cwg2.htm (7202 words)

	The Road to Washington - British Army Style
		The flotilla was assembled in Baltimore and engaged Admiral Cockburn's force in various actions, the last of which was on June 26, 1814, at St. Leonard's Creek near the mouth of the Patuxent River.
		In mid-August, Admiral Cockburn's force was joined by Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane's fleet with Major General Robert Ross' army embarked.
		Admiral Cockburn was anticipating an encounter north of Pig's Point with Commodore Barney's flotilla, so he landed his compliment of Royal Marines at the town of Leon, to engage the militia there.
	www.tc-solutions.com /croom/1812.html (821 words)

	NATO Who's who?: MilRep Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vice Admiral Kiyat graduated from the Naval Academy in 1961.
		After going back to Turkey, he took command of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla and of the NATO Naval on Call Force for Mediterranean at the same time and was then promoted to Rear Admiral (Lower Half) in 1987.
		In 1996 he was promoted to Rear Admiral (Upper Half) and served as the Chief of the Logistics Division in the Naval Forces HQ for two years.
	www.nato.int /cv/milrep/tu/kiyat.htm (263 words)

	US People--King, Ernest J., Fleet Admiral, USN.
		Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1933, he was made Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
		In early 1941, following service on the General Board and as commander of the Atlantic Patrol Force, King was appointed to lead the newly-recreated Atlantic Fleet through a period of steadily escalating tensions with Germany that led to undeclared war later in the year.
		As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was instrumental in obtaining sufficient resources to begin and sustain offensive operations against Japan despite a grand strategy of directing the bulk of America's power into the Atlantic and European theaters.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-k/ej-kng.htm (948 words)

	Greenpeace
		In all, forty-three boats, including both supporters and members (who will sail to meet the shipment) of the flotilla.
		With the Warrior (here in support) making the total forty-four, it was a strong showing, and after listening to today's speakers I know the flotilla members are more ready then ever to challenge British Nuclear Fuel's use of the Irish sea.
		Then everyone piled onto boats and we headed out to sea, on a clear bright day, for the trial run of something that suddenly seemed even more essential then we had thought a few hours before.
	archive.greenpeace.org /nuclear/bnfl/news_svrw_020901.html (546 words)

	Naval Rank Flags (Germany)
		The Dienstaltersttander (seniority pennant) is the same as the Divisionsstander (division pennant) and is used in harbour by the most senior officer of the ships present there, if none of the ships use a command sign of higher rank than the masthead pennant.
		The admirals' flags are not rank flags, but command signs, i.e.
		they are not used because the person using them is of admiral rank, but because he is the commanding officer of a ship or a naval unit, being of admiral rank.
	flagspot.net /flags/de~rank.html (692 words)

	David G. Farragut
		The man who would become the first Admiral of the United States Navy was born James Glasgow Farragut near Knoxville, Tennessee on July 6, 1801.
		Two years later In 1864, Rear Admiral Farragut was summoned from his Now York home to serve his country once more in leading an attack on Mobile Bay, the last Confederate stronghold in the Gulf of Mexico.
		The first Admiral of the Navy died on August 14, 1870 it the age of 69.
	www.nps.gov /vick/visctr/sitebltn/farragut.htm (1599 words)

	LCT(5) Flotilla 18 at Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944
		This second action report was submitted at the request of the LCT Flotilla Commander "as it was evident that many interesting details were missing." Report #2 certainly is more exciting reading.
		According to the Flotilla Commander’s action report, LCT 30 discharged its load of anti-aircraft half-tracks and, while retracting from the beach, was struck by an enemy shell knocking out all engines and flooding the engine room.
		Admiral’s endorsement to the second action report (7 August) recommended the skipper for both a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
	ww2lct.org /history/stories/flot_18_at_omaha.htm (4954 words)

	James Otto Richardson, Admiral, United States Navy
		He was a member of the first class of the Navy's Post Graduate Engineering School in 1909-11, then served as an engineer in the battleship Delaware and on the staff of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
		Transferred to the Retired List with the rank of Admiral in October 1942, he remained on active service with the Navy Relief Society, as Senior Member of a "Special Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee" on the reorganization of the National Defense, and as a witness before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
		Released from active duty in January 1947, he thereafter resided in Washington, D.C. Admiral James O. Richardson died on 2 May 1974, and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jorichardson.htm (985 words)

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