• Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia?
• Ronald J. Rábago became the first Hispanic American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard?
• as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross?
• Rear Admiral Ralph Christie (pictured) of the U.S. Navy was so incensed by the decision not to award Samuel Dealey the Medal of Honor, he sent a blunt message to Thomas Kinkaid that some viewed as bordering on insubordination?
• Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta (pictured), commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway?
• Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
• Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?
• Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II, later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors, titled after one of his own books?

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• Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
• Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
• Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
• British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
• Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars—military attacks on commercial vessels?
• Dutch admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1655) kept Maarten Tromp's standard raised to maintain morale after the latter died in the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653?
• Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel, the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign?
• Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War?
• in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
• in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?