Rear Admiral

Definition: Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral

Noun

1. An admiral junior to a vice admiral.

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Master

Admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral, port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, ensign, skipper, mate, master, officer of the day, OD; navarch.

Crosswords: Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral (1990)

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Books

• Captive of the Rising Sun: The Pow Memoirs of Rear Admiral Donald T. Giles, Usn (reference)

• From powder monkey to governor : the life of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, Kt., R.N., 1785-1860, first governor of South Australia, Lieut. Governor of Helifoland (reference)

• Rear Admiral John Rodgers, 1812-1882 (reference)

• Submarine Commander: Rear Admiral Ben Bryant (reference)

• The Empire of the Seas: A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, Usn (reference)

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Freddie L. Jeffries First African-American C&GS officer Went on to become Rear Admiral. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Don Jones On the OCEANOGRAPHER Went on to become Rear Admiral. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd at McMurdo Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Map of the approaches to Vicksburg, Mississippi, constructed by Coast Survey Sub - Assistant Clarence Fendall for Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter. This map was printed as a commemorative copy on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the formation of the Survey of the Coast. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Plate VII -- Tropical and Polar Air Currents. Contrast this view to some of the early TIROS imagery in the Space collection. In: The Weather Book : A Manual of Practical Meteorology, by Rear Admiral Robert Fitzroy . Published in 1863. Call Number QC861 .F54 1863. He was the commanding officer of H. M. S. BEAGLE when Charles Darwin made his famous studies. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, NH. : Inspection of hospital by Rear Admiral C. A. Swanson, Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Rear Admiral Presley M. Rixey, Surgeon General Of The United States Navy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Miss Hilda Ward, daughter of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, christens the ship named in honor of her father, during launching ceremonies at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Kearny, New Jersey, 22 November 1941. Assisting her is Lieutenant Commander George A. Holderness, Jr. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen is standing at left. Credit: NAVY.

Cover for sheet music composed by Chief Yeoman Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF, during World War I. It honors Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, Commandant of the First Naval District, and features his portrait. Chief Erd, who served at First Naval District Headquarters, in Boston, Massachusetts, contributed the royalties from this composition to the wartime Navy Relief effort. Credit: NAVY.

Out for a fight : in search of the Spanish fleet, Rear Admiral Sampson on the bridge of the "New York". Credit: Library of Congress.

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Albanian

kundëradmiral. (various references)

Bulgarian 

контраадмирал. (various references)

Chinese 

少將 (air vice marshal, major general). (various references)

Czech

Kontraadmirál. (various references)

Dutch

schout-bij-nacht, divisie-admiral. (various references)

French

vice-amiral. (various references)

German

Konteradmiral. (various references)

Greek 

Υποναύαρχοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ס�'ן א�"מירל. (various references)

Hungarian

Ellentengernagy (rear-admiral). (various references)

Italian

contrammiraglio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

少将 (air commodore, major general). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうしょう (air commodore, dejectedly, in low spirits, just a minute, major general, sadly, small quantity). (various references)

Manx

shaghardmarragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

earray admiralay

Portuguese

contra-almirante. (various references)

Romanian

contraamiral. (various references)

Russian 

контр-адмирал. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kontra-admiral. (various references)

Spanish

contraalmirante. (various references)

Swedish

konteramiral (flag officer, rear-admiral). (various references)

Turkish

tuğamiral (flag officer). (various references)

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