Admiralissimo

Admiralissimo is an informal title for a chief naval officer, ^[1] and is a naval equivalent of generalissimo .

List of senior naval officers referred to as admiralissimo

• Hayreddin Barbarossa – 15th/16th-century Turkish admiral ^[2]
• Albrecht von Wallenstein – admiral of the Baltic Sea
• John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe – British admiral of the fleet ^[3]
• Lord Charles Beresford – British 19th/20th-century admiral ^[4]
• Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère – Commander-in-Chief of France's Mediterranean forces
• George Dewey – American Admiral of the Navy ^[5]
• Deodoro da Fonseca – Brazilian 19th-century admiral

References

1. Charles à Court Repington (1 March 2001). The First World War: Personal Experiences. Simon Publications LLC. p. 317. ISBN   978-1-931313-72-8.
2. Edward Hamilton Currey (1928). Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean. Library of Alexandria. ISBN   978-1-4655-3746-1.
3. Robert K. Massie (1 September 2013). Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. Head of Zeus. p. 70. ISBN   978-1-78185-669-7.
4. Dr Robert L Davison (28 July 2013). The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy's Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN   978-1-4094-8241-3.
5. CHAP 378, "An act creating the office of Admiral of the Navy", United States Congress