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vice-ˈadmiral
Also 6 Sc. wice admerall, weis admirall, 6 vize-, 7 vizadmirall, -erall.
[a. AF. visadmirail (OF. visamiral, F. viceamiral): see vice- and admiral. So It. viceammiraglio, Sp. and Pg. vicealmirante.]
1. A naval officer ranking next to an admiral.
1520in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 165 Your Grace hath deputed the Master of the Rolles and the Vice Admirall to examyn the Inglysh marchaunts robbed and spoyled in September. 1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §33 The Lorde Admirall of Englande..or..any his Viceadmiralles. 1589Bigges Summarie Drake's W. Ind. Voy. 21 The Lieutenant generall, the Vizeadmirall, and all the rest of the Captaines. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xi. 156 Returning now to the Viceadmiralles shippe,..they tooke the sea. 1620R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) II. 121 The admerall and vizadmerall gave hym to understand shipps were ready to departe. 1670Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 102 Capt. Robinson in the Greenwich, as Admiral,..and Capt. Wild, in the Assurance, as Vice-Admiral. 1726Swift Gulliver, Lilliput viii, I..desired his Imperial Majesty to lend me..three thousand seamen under the command of his vice-admiral. 1777R. Watson Philip II, II. 259 Philip..giving him Martinez de Recaldo, a seaman of great experience, for his vice-admiral. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 126/2 There are also vice-admirals and rear-admirals of each flag, the former ranking with lieutenant generals..in the army. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade s.v., There are vice-admirals of three grades, who hoist respectively a red, white, or blue flag.
b. (See quot. 1769.)
a1618Raleigh Royal Navy (1650) 37 If the Vice-Admirall of the Shire where men are mustered..had directions given, to joyn with the Mustermasters. 1710J. Chamberlayne State Gt. Brit. (ed. 2) 581 A List of the Vice-Admirals. Sir John Molesworth, Bar., North parts of Cornwall. Earl Rivers, County of Essex [etc.]. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Admiral, Vice-Admiral is also a civil officer appointed by the lords-commissioners of the admiralty. There are several of these officers established in different parts of Great-Britain, with judges and marshals under them, for executing jurisdiction within their respective districts. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 159/2.
c. (See admiral n. 4.)
1698Act 10 Will. III, c. 14 §4 That the Master of every such Second Fishing Ship as shall enter any such Harbour or Creeke [in Newfoundland] shall be Vice-Admirall of such..during that Fishing Season. 1708[see admiral n. 4].
†2. A vessel commanded by a vice-admiral. Obs.
c1595Capt. Wyatt Dudley's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 3 Our Generall concluded that the vice-admerall with her pinness should sett saile and make for Plimworth before. 1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten 4/1 Their names were the Admirall S. Phillip, the vize Admiral S. Jacob. These were two new ships. 1629Wadsworth Pilgr. iv. 34 The Captaine of the Vice-Admirall..began to encourage his Marriners. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 180 Lysander commanded the Vice-Admiral. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 9 Another Tripoline, their vice admiral, was the next day taken by the Malta gallies.
attrib.1706Stevens Span. Dict. i, Almiranta, the Vice Admiral Ship of a Fleet.
3. Conch. A variety of shell of the genus Conus.
1819[see admiral n. 7].
Hence vice-ˈadmiralship.
1677Sir C. Wyche in Essex Papers (Camden) II. 118 That some man of integrity should succeed him in ye vice Admiralship of Munster. |