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  • |Admirals of the Fleet. |Admirals.
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  • ...rs, and not deemed entitled to be placed on the List of Superannuated Rear Admirals, may be increased from the Ten Shillings to Twelve Shillings a Day, that th ...e of entitling such Captains to the Rank and Pension of Superannuated Rear Admirals, as equivalent to actual Service at Sea.”
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  • ...r Order in Council to give effect to the following changes which appear to us to be necessary; That the future numbers of the under-mentioned ranks upon |Admirals of the Fleet
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  • | Admirals of the Fleet || 3 | Admirals || 12
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  • :''Admirals''.—To be retired so soon as five years have elapsed since their last " Se :''Vice-Admirals''.—To be retired so soon as five years have elapsed since their last " Se
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  • ...ld propose to Your Majesty, in order to effect the changes which appear to Us so manifestly imperative:— ...e graciously pleased to sanction the following propositions, and authorise Us to carry the several arrangements herein contemplated into operation from t
    30 KB (4,834 words) - 16:48, 18 January 2022
  • ...minutes later, a Division of our Destroyers passed and appeared not to see us, in reality they did and signalled for help, being unable to stop themselve .... the next morning, we were having Germans shells dropping near and around us. I was lying down almost too weak to stand, and it was awful waiting and w
    5 KB (911 words) - 16:10, 28 December 2021
  • ...ch.{{SMNLJan17|p. 21 and March's Supplement; February was not available to us}} ==Rear-Admirals Commanding==
    30 KB (3,669 words) - 15:09, 19 January 2022
  • ...formed us midshipmen that he hated all midshipmen, which boded no good for us and so it fell out.<ref>Kiddle. ''Naval Memories''. National Museum of th ...d information, James damned Cherry as "utterly incompetent."<ref>"Fabulous Admirals." ''The Naval Review''. Vol. XLVI. No. 2. p. 257.</ref>
    6 KB (948 words) - 22:27, 6 April 2022
  • ...in view of the very cordial personal relations which have existed between us throughout. ==Revolt of the Admirals==
    15 KB (2,585 words) - 20:13, 14 September 2012
  • ...Ottley, Lord Charles Beresford, Director Naval Intelligence, and Japanese admirals. Letters concern Japanese and Russian naval activities, report of Battle of ...nited States navy, dated 15 Dec 1921, enclosing photostat of signatures of admirals, commodores and captains of the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.
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  • ...B. Kiddle]], later remembered Tottenham as "a sour pessimist who disliked us all and his appointment. Luckily a few months saw him promoted and he left [[Category:Rear-Admirals Commanding, Devonport Division, Home Fleet (Royal Navy)]]
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  • ...final and there would have been no German Fleet left, whatever happened to us. But that can't be helped. It is ludicrous for the Germans to claim a vic ...le afterwards discussing the battle in the admiral's mess along with other admirals from Berlin (among them Holtzendorff), the conversation turned to what moti
    6 KB (1,004 words) - 18:54, 1 August 2017
  • ...attach to this policy. It will not, I am afraid be agreeable to the Vice-Admirals who are now in command of the 2nd and 4th Battle Squadrons. But we should
    7 KB (1,177 words) - 18:25, 24 September 2011
  • ...ion that was necessary for the problem which at the moment was confronting us.<br>However, Churchill would not be moved, and Asquith yielded to him.<ref> ...s arrival he instituted the "ordeal by sunlight." He liked to see as many admirals and captains as possible. When
    14 KB (2,230 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2021
  • ...vy startling promotion," as he was twenty-first out of the twenty-two Vice-Admirals on the Active List in order of seniority, and he had also been seriously co ...han valuable assistance to support me in the very big work there is before us.<ref>Callaghan to Jellicoe. Letter of 9 December, 1911. Jellicoe Papers.
    15 KB (2,453 words) - 12:32, 5 December 2021
  • ...n advance copy of ''The Navy List'' showing him at the head of the list of Admirals. His goal reached, he expressed his wish to retire, but for it to be annou ...ly, and has the 2nd Class of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, and the US of America Distinguished Service Medal; awarded Beaufort Testimonial, 1888;
    20 KB (2,933 words) - 22:59, 6 April 2022
  • Thus science continues to present to us more and more frequently its practical side; and thus every branch of human ...parted, but we are anxious to point out the possible result which seems to us well worthy of being kept in view.
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  • ...ent when the real work would begin. Broke away at noon & Pakenham rushing us about to no particular end. In the afternoon it came on thick so we crawle ...y & Russia certain & its [sic] only a question of days now for the rest of us to be dragged in. The rest to Goodwood and I to the Vernon where practical
    15 KB (2,374 words) - 22:47, 6 April 2022
  • Typescript "Admirals All" and "Son Excellence" signed Newbolt. ...orbett in the Dreadnought Era" by Peter Marsh Stanford, reprinted from the US Naval Institute Proceedings, January, 1951.
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