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  Admiralty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy.
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.
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission (the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century).
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 Admiral
The admiral and commander-in-chief of the fleet has the rank of a field-marshal in the army; admirals with flags at the main take rank with generals of horse and foot;vice-admirals with lieutenant-generals; rear admirals with major-generals; commodores of the first and second class with broad pendants with brigadier-generals.
The first admiral by name that we know of in England was W. de Leybourne, who was appointed to that office by Edward I. in the year 1286, under the title of admiral de la mer dy Roy a Angleterre.
The salary of the first lord commissioner is 4500 pounds a --year, and of each of the naval lords 1500 pounds, in addition to the half-pay of their rank.
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 Admiralty - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Admiralty was the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy.
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was permanently in commission.
The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Prime Minister's Cabinet.
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 More Info - Admiralty wik9.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 (United Kingdom).
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission (the last Lord High Admiral being the future William IV of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century).
- Admiralty House (London) : This is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, which was built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and served that purpose until 1964.
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 ADMIRALTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The High Court of Admiralty of England was the court of the deputy or lieutenant of the admiral.
The admiralty advocate or advocate to his majesty in his office of admiralty represented specially the lords of the admiralty.
Questions soon arose as to the respective claims of the admiralty advocate and the counsel to the admiralty, and their acuteness was increased when the courts were fused into one High Court of Justice.
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 Admiralty - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Admiralty House: This is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, which was built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and served that purpose until 1964.
The Admiralty Citadel is a squat windowless World War II fortress north west of Horse Guards Parade.
Admiralty, History, The buildings, Reference, See also, Royal Navy, Royal Navy admirals and Lords of the Admiralty.
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 Admiralty : search word
The Admiralty Board replaced the Board of Admiralty (officially the Lords Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, etc.) when the functions of that office were incorporated into the Ministry of Defence in 1964.
Control of the Navy was passed a number of times to and from the board and the Lord High Admiral, notoriously vested in the Duke of York towards the end of Charles II's reign, until in 1709 the powers of the Lord High Admiral were finally vested in the Board of Admiralty.
HRH The Duke of Clarence (Lord High Admiral) 1827 - 1828
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This is a List of Lord High Admirals and First Lords of the Admiralty of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
The office of Lord High Admiral, when it was not occupied by an individual, was "put into commission" and exercised by a board of Lords Commissioners headed by a ''First Lord of the Admiralty''.
In 1964, the office of First Lord of the Admiralty was abolished and the functions of the commissioners were transferred to the Admiralty Board of a tri-service Defence Council, and the title of Lord High Admiral was re-vested in the Sovereign.
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 1461 Encyclopedia Articles @ YYOC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England
List of dukedoms in the peerages of the British Isles
List of Speakers of the British House of Commons
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 Admiralty info here at en.getsearchinformation.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal...
Originally exercised by a single person the office of Lord High Admiral was from the th The Admiralty was formerly 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 th The USMS becomes involved in admiralty matters by carrying out orders of the federal courts USC The information related to the service of court process that is contained on this web site www.admiralty.org is under construction.
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 Navy List - June 1844   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lord George Hamilton nine years ago, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, in referring to the life of an ironclad, reckoned 20 years as the period after which such vessels might be said to become obsolete.
The Inflexible was the first ship in which steel-faced armour was used for outer turret plating, and the turrets were placed so far apart laterally as to obtain direct fire ahead and astern in conjunction with a high deck forward and aft, and a couple of narrow deck superstructures.
She is of 8,015 tons and measures 315 ft. by 62 ft., and is, in a sense, a modified Admiral, for the disposition of the armour is similar, though reduced in thickness from 18 in.
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 MEMORIAL OF THOMAS POTTS, JUNIOR - FIRST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
High Dutch, as the language was then termed, was universally spoken; and it is said that the first English preaching in the town was when Washington made it his head-quarters during the Revolution.
The first story is eleven and a half (11 1/2) feet high ; the second, ten (10) feet high, and from the square to the apex of the roof the height is eighteen (18) feet.
He was connected with Lord Gambier, one of the Lords of the Admiralty in England.
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 Lord High Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
for Lord High Admiral of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, see Admiralty
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List
The Fisgard was at Callao, and Captain Duntze was left senior officer on the coasts of Chili and Peru during the absence of the Admiral.
The Thomas Lord then proceeded to Copang for the purpose of recruiting, at which place the following intelligence was obtained :-The Lloyds, Garland Grove, and Enchantress, hence, have touched there, having on board Captain Mackenzie, and some of the passengers and crew of the schooner Heroine.
By command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
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 Admiralty Documents. Stephens Surname
References: Not in the list of High Court of Admiralty Records.
CAPTAIN CHARLES STEVENS, to the Secretary of the Admiralty.
Lord Loudon in entrenched within 4 miles of the French.
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 1646 Encyclopedia Articles @ KarrNet.com (Karr Net)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
List of people from the Dutch Golden Age
List of Captains Regent of San Marino, 1500-1700
Timeline of events leading to the English Civil War
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 LordHighAdmiral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Pittsburgh Jewish ChronicleIsrael sends first troops into Lebanon in 6 yearsDuluth News Tribune - 6 hours agoRETRIBUTION:The offensive was in response to the seizure of two Israeli soldiers by the militant Shiite group Hezbollah.
Stralsund, Germany (dpa) - At first it all seemed so incongruous.
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