First of its kind in Coimbatore, the foundation for the Rs. 88-crore project to come up on 13-odd acres, was laid by Rear Admiral R. Gaikwad, Director General, AFNHB.
Rear-Adm Sir John Fleming DSC, Director of the Naval Education Service from 1956–60
The rank insignia for a rear-admiral is two stars beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by Emblem of India, worn on shoulder boards.
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In 1984, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and commanded the Pakistan Fleet (COMPAK); followed by another assignment as Commandant of Pakistan Naval War College.
The series focuses on two main characters, naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin, and the ongoing plot is structured around Aubrey's ascent from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
In 1905, Prince Louis of Battenberg, commanding the five ships of the Royal Navy's 2nd Cruiser Squadron, visited the United States, making port visits in New York City, Annapolis and Washington, D.C. Shortly after his return to England, Battenberg sent the cup to Rear Admiral Robley Evans who at the time commanded the US North Atlantic Fleet.
Commander Hay ordered that on October 1, the remaining junks be attacked so he sent a letter to Rear Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier requesting reinforcements while he prepared for another action with the pirates.
After discussions with party officials, however, Lentz decided to bow out in favor of Rear Admiral Joe Sestak.
It was discovered and photographed from the air on January 24, 1947, by United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–1947, and named by Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Navy, who, as naval advisor to President Harry S. Truman at the time of Operation Highjump, assisted materially at the high-level planning and authorization stages.
On 8 January 1880, Arbuthnot married Emily Caroline Schomberg, daughter of Rear Admiral Charles Frederick Schomberg.
When he returned to Japan, Hara took command of the cruiser Tatsuta, and next he held a number of staff positions in the Imperial Japanese Navy until he was promoted to rear admiral on November 15, 1939.
On January 8, 2009, at the United States Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Vice Admiral William E. Gortney, USN, announced the formation of CTF-151 to combat the piracy threat off Somalia, with Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight in command.
Rear Admiral David William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow, CB, DSC (24 July 1910 – 8 June 1984) was a British nobleman and a Royal Navy officer.
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry expressed cautious optimism of zero environmental impact, stating that no oil was emanating from either the wellhead or the broken pipes and that oil spilled from the explosion and sinking was being contained.
Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.
Following a year of study on fellowship at the Biochemical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, E.E. Lockhart served as the physiologist on Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd’s United States Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939-1941 to the South Pole.
Rear Admiral Albert C. Read (1887–1967), Commander/Navigator of the NC-4, the first aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight in 1919
In March 1942, as Chief of Staff and Aide to the Commandant of the Sixteenth Naval District, Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell, he participated in General Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines.
Included were six high-ranking military officers, one of them Rear Admiral Tadashi Maeda.
John Daniel Hayes, (Born 23 January 1902 in New York City - died on 29 March 1991 in Cary, North Carolina) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and a naval historian.
Joseph C. Harsch married Ann Elizabeth Wood, the daughter of retired United States Navy Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, and maintained a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Juan Williams Rebolledo (1825 in Curacaví, Melipilla Province – June 24, 1910 in Santiago), was a Chilean rear admiral who was the organizer and commander-in-chief of the Chilean navy in 1879 at the beginning of the War of the Pacific.
Also coming out in the interview were Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard of the Army and Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman of the United States Coast Guard.
Rear Admiral Richard Darton Thomas sailed to Hawaii, investigated the matter, and restored the Hawaiian Kingdom.
According to the United Press International an unnamed military official attributed the change in policy to the recent appointment of the new camp commandant Rear Admiral David B. Woods.
Monzo Akiyama (秋山 門造, Akiyāmā Mōnzō) (December 30, 1891, Nagaoka - January 25, 1944, Kwajalein) was a Japanese Rear Admiral who served in World War II.
Task Force 47 (TF 47), a 28-ship detachment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Edmund B. Taylor, sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to participate in the official opening of the Seaway by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 26, 1959.
Rear Admiral Philip John Mack DSO* (6 October 1892—29 April 1943) was an officer of the British Royal Navy.
Prince Kuni was promoted to rear admiral on 1 November 1942, and was given personnel of the Southwest Area Fleet (5 October 1942) the Japanese occupation of Timor in the Pacific War.
The situation was further exacerbated by a series of articles for popular consumption written by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery for The Saturday Evening Post.
Richard R. Behn, is a retired one-star rear admiral of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps who served as director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine and Aviation Operations Centers (part of NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)), from August 2004 to September 2007.
In May 1942, when Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher's Task Force 17 steamed in the Coral Sea seeking to foil Japan's attempt to extend her influence southward, Underhill was with VS-5 on board carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5).
Therefore, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell determined to activate, organize, and man Navy construction units.
In the Surigao Strait between Leyte and Dinagat Islands on the evening of 24 October 1944, he contacted the U.S. 7th Fleet under Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, which consisted of six battleships, eight cruisers, 29 destroyers, and 39 motor torpedo boats.
Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, 1st Baronet (23 June 1727 – 25 February 1792) was a British naval officer who finished his career as a rear admiral in the British Royal Navy and was ennobled as the first Baronet Bickerton of Upwood.
According to the Washington Post, Abraham felt compelled to make his criticisms public after having heard his former boss, Rear Admiral James M. McGarrah, describe the Tribunal process "fair".
During this period, Ingersoll was a lieutenant commander and air operations officer on the staff of Rear Admiral Arthur L. Bristol, Jr., who was commander of the U.S. Navy Support Force at Argentia in the Dominion of Newfoundland, the force responsible for the escort work.
The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents – A Memoir is a book authored by Connie Mariano, the first military woman in the history of the United States to be appointed as Physician to the President, the first female director of the medical unit of the White House, and the first Filipino-American to become a rear admiral in the US Navy.
Promoted to rear admiral from September 1890, Tsuboi was Commander of the Sasebo Naval District to December 1892, Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy from 1892–1893, and Commandant of the Naval Staff College from 1893-1894.
Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin (Владимир Иванович Истомин in Russian) (1809 – March 7(19), 1855) was a Russian rear admiral (1853) and hero of the Siege of Sevastopol.
Promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in early 1944, he was Commander of the Seventh Fleet's Amphibious Group 8 from August 1944 to March 1945, participating in landings at Morotai, Leyte, Lingayen and elsewhere in the Philippines.
Rear Admiral Abu Sayed Mohammad Abdul Awal (G), ndc, MDS, psc, BN (born 1957) was the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Personnel) of Bangladesh Navy.
Erroll M. Brown, a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard, and the first African-American promoted to flag rank
Robert Morris Doyle (1853-1925), Rear Admiral of the United States Navy
The Allied naval contingent consisted of over 50 vessels, drawn from Force H, the British Home Fleet and the British Eastern Fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Edward Neville Syfret.
Rear Admiral Morton Deyo, heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (flag), heavy cruiser Quincy, battleship Nevada, HMS light cruiser Glasgow and light cruiser Enterprise, six destroyers: Ellyson, Rodman, Gherardi, Hambleton, Emmons, and British 9th Minesweeping Flotilla.
In 1949 he appointed Rear-Admiral Rollo Mainguy to head a commission of inquiry into the so-called "mutinees" on several navy ships that year.
June 5, 1942: Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, on board the aircraft carrier Hiryu, insisted on staying with the stricken ship during the Battle of Midway.
Following the failure of a coup plot in 2008, Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto escaped to Gambia where he was arrested.
In 1967, the Secretary of the Navy officially designated the academic post as the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law in honor of Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, a former faculty member and President of the Naval War College, who had been the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.
Following the death of Queen Anne, Wager was still listed as a Rear Admiral and he was ordered to take charge of the ships at Portsmouth, and in later to go out to the Strait of Gibraltar and assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
Since 1918, Dahlgren has been the site of a U.S. Naval base named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren.
Riou worked closely with Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson during the approach to the Battle of Copenhagen, earning Nelson's trust and admiration.
After the British force had surveyed the Danish positions around Copenhagen, a council of war was held between Parker, his second in command Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and the other British captains.
In 1854, he served in the Baltic campaign under Sir Charles Napier as captain of the gunboat HMS Desperate, and returned to that theatre in 1855 under Rear-Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, as captain of the steam frigate HMS Pylades.
Rear Admiral Eleanor V. Valentin is the first female flag officer to serve as director of the United States Navy Medical Service Corps.
McNair was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (Class of 1903) and the son of Rear Admiral Frederick V. McNair, Sr. (Class of 1857), and the grandfather of tennis star Frederick V. McNair, IV.
It is presumed to have been named by Governor James Stirling after Rear Admiral Sir John Harvey, who in 1818 was Commander in Chief of the West Indies Station while Stirling had served in that region.
To that end, its commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, established a forward base at the Moudros bay at Lemnos, directly opposite the Dardanelles straits.
From 1926 to 1928, he commanded the cruiser HMS Coventry, also serving as the Chief Staff Officer to the Rear-Admiral (Destroyers) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet.
On August 20, 2007, Rear Admiral Gerald R. Beaman, Commander Strike Force Training Pacific, toured NOSC Indianapolis with Commanding Officer CDR J.T. Garry and staff prior to speaking at the opening ceremony of Indy Navy Week 2007.
The town virtually closed down for the funeral as a mark of respect, and bands and pipers from HMS Emerald, the Gordon Highlanders and that of Rear Admiral McLeod, the commanding officer of Haulbowline Naval Base.
On returning to France in February 1811 Hamelin was presented to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and made a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, created a Baron of Empire, raised to the rank of rear-admiral and named commander of a division of the squadron under the orders of Admiral Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy.
Under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, this ship drove off a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois in the Battle of Pulo Aura.
William, the eldest, became Chancellor of the Exchequer; John was a Major-General in the British Army; Daines was a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist; Samuel was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy; and Shute became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.
Rear Admiral Jonathan A. Yuen is an American naval officer and commander of Naval Supply Global Logistics Support.
In mid-1911, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson was chosen to succeed Murdock as commander-in-chief of the fleet as of November 1911, but Murdock had gained distinction in his handling of unrest in China related to the Xinhai Revolution of that year, and United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox requested that Murdock be kept on as fleet commander-in-chief to allow continuity until the situation in China stabilized.
Kingcome Inlet was named for Captain John Kingcome of the troopship HMS Simoom, later knighted, who was Rear Admiral in charge of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy from 1863 to 1864 and whose flagship was HMS Sutlej.
The airport was dedicated as Lansdowne Field in late October, 1926 with Rear Admiral William A. Moffett in attendance.
A native of Warrington, Pennsylvania, Rear Admiral Kibben entered active duty in the U.S. Navy in 1986 following studies for a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.
Rear Admiral Matthew L. Klunder is the Chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia.
Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series of books, used an amalgam of Knight and his former superior Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of the Naval Intelligence Division, as a model for the character 'M', Bond's boss.
--first name not known--> who had been sent to the area by Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov to investigate whether Russian interests in the area had been impacted by gold-mining activity from the recent Stikine Gold Rush of 1861-1862.
Rear Admiral Gary T. Blore, Assistant Commandant for Acquisition, leads the directorate.
Our Mims was named after Melinda Markey, the daughter of Rear Admiral Gene Markey, second husband of Calumet Farm owner Lucille Markey.
In 2007, he became the head of the Royal Navy Medical Service, the Medical Director General (Naval), as Surgeon Rear-Admiral, before assuming the position of Surgeon-General on 22 December 2009, taking over from Lieutenant-General Louis Lillywhite.
Ras Desta and Princess Tenagnework were the parents of two sons, Princes Amha and Iskinder Desta (later Rear Admiral), and four daughters, Princesses Aida Desta, Seble Desta, Sophia Desta and Hirut Desta.
In January 1943, however, Rear Admiral Robert English, Commander, Submarines, U.S. Pacific Fleet, was killed in a plane crash.
A little over two years later, Rear Admiral Voge died at the United Hospital at Port Chester, New York.
Rear Admiral Arthur Farquhar, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet invested a further $12,000.
Alaskan Sea Frontier - from 1 January 1947 with the establishment of United States Pacific Command, Task Force 95, Rear Admiral Daubin's Alaskan Sea Frontier, was to operate under the commander-in-chief of the Alaskan Command, Major General Craig.
Later, in October 1942, the Task Force, now under Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, confronted a force directed by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the same area.
Rear Admiral Cowie was awarded the Navy Cross for his valuable services in connection with the Liberty Loans of World War I.
His first year, his sold 7,000 copies of a print of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt.
Rear Admiral Selfridge died in Waverly (now part of Belmont, Massachusetts).
John Tolhurst - British Rear Admiral and a former Royal Navy officer
Rear Admiral Carl Theodore Vogelgesang (1869-1927), a United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
As a result of this in the late 1950s, Clark's work came to the attention of the Director of Naval History, Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller at the Naval History Division of the Navy Department (now the Naval Historical Center) and the head of the Early History Branch in that office, Dr. William J. Morgan.
Reynolds lost his bid for higher pay because the Comptroller General ruled he was paid retirement pay as a rear admiral, and not as a former commandant.
Paul F. Zukunft (born 1955), rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard