Vice Admiral Definition

Vice Admiral Sentence Examples

• In that year he was promoted rear-admiral, and in 1775 vice-admiral.

• Subsequently he became rear-admiral, and finally vice-admiral on the retired list.

• The French navy being left unemployed during the minority of Louis XIV., Duquesne obtained leave to offer his services to the king of Sweden, who gave him a commission as vice-admiral in 1643.

• During the peace he entered parliament as member for Westminster in the fiercely contested election of 1784, was promoted vice-admiral in 1787, and in July of 1788 was appointed to the Board of Admiralty under the second earl of Chatham.

• Mansel, vice-admiral and treasurer of the navy, acquired the sole rights of making glass in England.