NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vizeadmiral

Vice Admiral is a naval rank of three star level, equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority. In the United States Navy, Vice Admirals generally command the numbered fleets around the world that make up the naval components of each of the regional unified commands. Of the five numbered fleets, four have command ships which act as the Vice Admiral's flagship.

A Vice Admiral is typically senior to a Rear Admiral and junior to an Admiral.

In the Royal Navy the rank of Vice Admiral should be distinguished from the office of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom, which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired full Admiral.

	Student Officer	OF(D)	OF-1	OF-2	OF-3	OF-4	OF-5	OF-6	OF-7	OF-8	OF-9	OF-10
British commissioned officer ranks
Royal Navy:	OCdt	Mid	SLt	Lt	Lt Cdr	Cdr	Capt	Cdre	RAdm	VAdm	Adm	Admiral of the Fleet
Royal Marines:	OCdt		2Lt - Lt	Capt	Maj	Lt Col	Col	Brig	Maj Gen	Lt Gen	Gen
Army:	OCdt	OD	2Lt - Lt	Capt	Maj	Lt Col	Col	Brig	Maj Gen	Lt Gen	Gen	Field Marshal
Royal Air Force:	OCdt	OD	PO - FO	Flt Lt	Sqn Ldr	Wg Cdr	Gp Capt	ACdre	AVM	AM	ACM	MRAF

Categories: Military ranks

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High Seas Fleet Battle Squadron Commanders 1914-1918 (980 words)
	Battle Squadron, Vizeadmiral von Lans, was replaced following the issuing of a memorandum, this challenged the pre-war fleet construction policy, arguing that it lacked strategic insight, was critical of existing fleet policy and recommended greater activity in the Baltic.
	Vizeadmiral / Admiral Franz Ritter von Hipper, 7/8/1918 - 30/11/1918.
	Vizeadmiral Hugo Kraft, 19/1/1918 - 13/2/1918 and 4/6/1918 - 22/7/1918.

OPERATION ALBION (7095 words)
	It was only at 0545hrs that the Russian battery was sighted and taken under fire with the medium calibre guns at a range of 46 hectometres.
	Vizeadmiral Behncke had decided to conserve the barrels of his heavy artillery.
	At about 2100hrs the previous evening Vizeadmiral Souchon had led the First Division of the IV Squadron, Friedrich der Grosse and Konig Albert, away from the main body to the southeast, where they anchored out of sight of land.

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