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This flag was adopted due to criticisms from the British Admiralty that the previous design was too similar to the design of the Victorian flag.
Two weeks later, on 23 November, those flags were officially abandoned because Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London made it clear that only a single badge could be placed at the fly end of the ensign, as set out by rule of the British Admiralty.
Starting in 1843, he was employed with the engineering department of the British Admiralty, working on the construction of dry docks and fortifications.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the British Admiralty approached him.
Henry Negretti (1818–1879) and Joseph Zambra (1822–1897) formed a partnership in 1850, thereby founding the firm which would eventually be appointed opticians and scientific instrument makers to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the Royal Observatory and the British Admiralty.
After World War I, he served as United States naval representative at a conference which met at the British Admiralty to consider clearing the seas of mines after the war.
Shortly after the visit, Australia ordered its first modern warships, a purchase that angered the British Admiralty.
The first attacks by German bombing airships on the United Kingdom in the winter of 1914-15 resulted in the British Admiralty issuing a requirement for a two-seat aircraft with long endurance to attack Zeppelins by dropping incendiary Ranken darts onto the airships in the hope of igniting their gas envelopes, with an order for nine Blackburn TBs being placed in March 1915.
Alexander Dalrymple of the Hydrography Department of the British Admiralty published a plan of this location on 9 February 1793.
Cook gave no reason for the name, but it is possible it was in honour of John Clevland, a former Secretary to the British Admiralty.
The first recorded European discovery of Sydney Harbour, was by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 - Cook named the inlet after Sir George Jackson, (one of the Lord Commissioners of the British Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet).
In 1916, the British Admiralty placed a contract with Frederick Sage & Co, a Peterborough based woodworking company which had become an aircraft contractor for the Royal Navy, to design and build a primary trainer for the Royal Naval Air Service.