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Additional notes
[edit]Admiral of Ireland
[edit]- Sir John d'Athy 7 December 1335 as Adm of the Kings Fleet in Ireland [1]
- Sir William Spalding 26 May 1382 as Admiral in Ireland.[2]
- Sir James Dartasoo 5 July 1404
- James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde, 1539-1545 as Admiral of Ireland [3]
Vice-Admirals of England
[edit]- Sir Robert de Umfraville June 1410–1436 [4] (possibly Vadm North Seas Squadron was sent Leith)
Vice-Admiral North Sea
[edit]- Vice-Admiral Sir Robert de Umfraville June 1410–1436 [5] (possibly Vadm North Seas Squadron was sent Leith)
Vice=Admiral Narrow Sea
[edit]- Vice-Admiral Sir John Pendagrast commanding the Narrow Seas in 1412.[6]
- Vice-Admiral, William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, 1523-1524 (also Vadm Channel fleet)
- Vice-Admiral, Sir Thomas Rainsborough, June 1648 (also Vadm Channel squadron)
- General-at-Sea, Sir Robert Blake, 1652-1657 (commanding the channel squadron and the downs/narrows seas) [7]
Vice-Admiral Channel
[edit]- Incomplete list of post holders included:
- Vice-Admiral, Sir Edward Howard, 1512-1513 [8]
- Vice-Admiral, William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, 1523-1524 (also cinc the downs/narrow Seas?)
- Vice-Admiral Sir George Carew, 1544-1545
- Vice-Admiral, Sir William Wynter, 1545-1546
- Vice-Admiral Sir William Woodhouse, 1557 - January 1559
- Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Drake, 1588-1589
- Vice-Admiral, Sir Robert Mansel, 1600-1602
- Admiral, Sir Edward Cecil 1625
- Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, 1626-?
- Vice-Admiral, Sir Thomas Rainsborough, January 1648 - June 1648
- Vice-Admiral Sir William Batten, June 1648 - 1650
- Admiral Sir George Ayscue, 1651-1652
- General-at-Sea, Sir Robert Blake, 1652-1657 (commanding the channel squadron and the downs/narrows seas) [9]
- Vice-Admiral, Sir John Lawson, 1659-1660
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Norris, 5 March 1709-1715
- Admiral Sir John Norris, 1729-1744 (second time - appoint adm. of the fleet and c.-in-c. then resigned) [10]
- Admiral Sir John Balchen, 14 July 1744-1746 [11]
Irish Sea Fleet
[edit]also called the Irish Squadron or Irish Sea Squadron
- Admiral Robert Drouss, of Cork 18 August 1356
- Admiral Sir John Beaufort 1397.
- Vice-Admiral Sir william Wynter, 1560-? North Sea squadron engaged at the Siege of Leith. [12]
- Vice-Admiral Richard Swanley 1643-1644 as Adm of the Irish Seas[13]
- Vice-Admiral, Sir George Ayscue, August 1648 - 1650
Refs
[edit]- ^ Townsend, George Henry (1877). The Manual of Dates: A Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records. London, England: Frederick Warne. p. 16.
- ^ Townsend, George Henry (1877). The Manual of Dates: A Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records. London, England: Frederick Warne. p. 16.
- ^ Lundy, Darryl (19 September 2018). "Person Page: James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde". www.thepeerage.com. The Peerage. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris (1847). A History of the Royal Navy: 1327-1422. London, England: R. Bentley. p. 398.
- ^ Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris (1847). A History of the Royal Navy: 1327-1422. London, England: R. Bentley. p. 398.
- ^ Campbell, John (1812). Lives of the British Admirals: Containing Also a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods. London, England: C. J. Barrinton. p. 245.
- ^ Baumber, Michael (1989). General-at-sea : Robert Blake and the seventeenth-century revolution in naval warfare (1. publ. ed.). London: J. Murray. p. 155. ISBN 9780719547065.
- ^ Childs, David (2014). "2: From the Sea". The Warship Mary Rose: The Life and Times of King Henry VII's Flagship. Barnsley, England: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473852853.
- ^ Baumber, Michael (1989). General-at-sea : Robert Blake and the seventeenth-century revolution in naval warfare (1. publ. ed.). London: J. Murray. p. 155. ISBN 9780719547065.
- ^ "Norris, John (1660?-1749) (DNB00)". wikisource.org. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 41. pp.134-135. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ Archives, The National. "Commission and Warrent Book". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives UK, ADM 6/16 4 January 1742-18 September 1745. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ Corbett, Julian Stafford (1917). "The Navy of Elizabeth". Drake and the Tudor navy, with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power. London, England: London : Longmans, Green. p. 347.
- ^ Laughton, John Knox. "Swanley Richard". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 55. Retrieved 25 June 2018.