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Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688.[1] The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10, equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Apart from honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have been named since 1995, and no honorary appointments have been made since 2014.

Admiral of the Fleet

The flag of an admiral of the Fleet is the Union Flag

Insignia shoulder board and sleeve lace for Admiral of the Fleet

Country United Kingdom
Service branch Royal Navy
AbbreviationADMF
Rank groupFlag officer
RankFive-star
NATO rank codeOF-10
Formation1688
Next higher ranknone
Next lower rankAdmiral
Equivalent ranks
 
King George VI and Admiral Bruce Fraser aboard HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow, August 1943

The origins of the rank can be traced back to John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp de Warwick, who was appointed 'Admiral of the King's Southern, Northern and Western Fleets' on 18 July 1360.[2] The appointment gave the command of the English navy to one person for the first time; this evolved into the post of Admiral of the Fleet.[3] In the days of sailing ships the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy included distinctions related to the fleet being divided into three divisions – red, white, or blue. Each division was assigned at least one admiral, who in turn commanded a number of vice-admirals and rear admirals. While the full admirals were nominally equals, tradition gave precedence to the Admiral of the White who held the fleet rank in addition to his substantive role.[1]

Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

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The Restoration era brought a general reorganisation of naval ranks and structure, including formalisation of the admiral of the fleet role. In a break with tradition the rank was awarded to the most senior Admiral of the Red, who retained this substantive rank while also serving as Admiral of the Fleet. Appointments were for life, remunerated via a £5 daily stipend and an annual allowance of £1,014 for the hiring and maintenance of servants. It was intended that only one officer would hold the rank at any time, with their presence aboard any naval vessel to be denoted by the flying of the Royal Standard from the main mast.[4]

The ranks of Admiral of the Fleet and Admiral of the Red were formally separated from 1805, with an announcement in the London Gazette that "His Majesty [has] been pleased to order the Rank of Admirals of the Red to be restored"[5] in His Majesty's Navy..." as a separate role. The same Gazette promoted 22 men to that rank.[6] From the nineteenth century onward there were also occasional variations to the previous requirement that only one Admiral of Fleet could serve at one time. In 1821 George IV appointed Sir John Jervis as a second admiral of the fleet, to balance the Duke of Wellington's promotion as a second Field Marshal in the British Army. In 1830 King William IV increased the number of admirals of the fleet to three, though these additional lifetime postings subsequently lapsed. Between 1854 and 1857 there was no admiral of the fleet at all as the most senior naval officer of the time – Admiral of the Red Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin – was mentally ill and had not served at sea for forty-five years.[7][8] In deference to Gosselin's seniority the position was instead left vacant until his death in 1857, whereupon it was filled by Admiral Charles Ogle.[4]

The organisation of the British fleet into coloured squadrons was abandoned in 1864, though the rank of admiral of the fleet was maintained. The title of First Naval Lord was renamed First Sea Lord in 1904.[9]

During the two World Wars a number of serving officers held active commissions as admirals of the fleet, as well as the First Sea Lord—e.g. Sir John Tovey.[10]

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was created an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1954, following the coronation of his wife Elizabeth II as Queen. This promotion was to a New Zealand rank, separate from the Royal Navy rank.[11]

Following the creation of the Chief of the Defence Staff in 1959, the five naval officers appointed to that position became admirals of the fleet. Recognizing the reduced post–Cold War size of the British Armed Forces, no further appointments were made to the rank after 1995 when Sir Benjamin Bathurst was appointed admiral of the fleet on his retirement as First Sea Lord. The rank was not abolished and in 2012 the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) became an honorary admiral of the fleet (as well as field marshal and marshal of the Royal Air Force), in recognition of his support to Queen Elizabeth II in her role of as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces. In 2014, Lord Boyce, a former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff, was also appointed an honorary admiral of the fleet.[12]

Admirals of the Fleet

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Appointed
 Image
 Name
 Born
 Died
 Notes
 Reference
24 September 1688   George Legge
(later The Lord Dartmouth)		 1647 1691 [13]
30 May 1690   Edward Russell
(later The Earl of Orford)		 1652 1727 [14]
28 April 1696   Sir George Rooke 1650 1709 circa [15]
13 January 1705   Sir Cloudesley Shovell 1650 1707 [16]
8 January 1708   Sir John Leake 1656 1720 [17]
21 December 1708   Sir Stafford Fairborne 1666 1742 circa [18]
12 November 1709   Sir Matthew Aylmer
(later The Lord Aylmer)		 1650 1720 [19]
14 March 1718   Sir George Byng
(later The Viscount Torrington)		 1663 1733 [20]
20 February 1734   Sir John Norris 1670 1749 [21]
1 July 1749   Sir Chaloner Ogle 1681 1750 [22]
22 November 1751   James Steuart 1690 1757 [23]
March 1757   George Clinton 1686 1761 [24]
30 July 1761   The Lord Anson 1697 1762 [25]
17 December 1762   Sir William Rowley 1690 1768 circa [26]
15 January 1768   Sir Edward Hawke
(later The Lord Hawke)		 1705 1781 [27]
24 October 1781   John Forbes 1714 1796 [28]
12 March 1796   The Earl Howe 1726 1799 [29]
16 September 1799   Sir Peter Parker, Bt. 1721 1811 [30]
24 December 1811   King William IV 1765 1837 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom 1827–1828
appointed at that time as The Duke of Clarence and St Andrews		 [31]
19 July 1821   The Earl of St Vincent 1735 1823 acting from May 1814 [32]
28 June 1830   William Williams-Freeman 1742 1832 [33]
22 July 1830   The Lord Gambier 1756 1833 [34]
22 July 1830   Sir Charles Pole, Bt. 1757 1830 [34]
24 April 1833   Sir Charles Nugent 1759 1844 [35]
8 January 1844   Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed 1762 1849 [36]
9 November 1846   Sir George Martin 1764 1847 [37]
13 October 1849   Sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773 1854 [38]
1 July 1851   Sir George Cockburn
(later the Cockburn Baronet)		 1772 1853 [39]
8 December 1857   Sir Charles Ogle, Bt. 1775 1858 [40]
25 June 1858   Sir John West 1774 1862 [41]
20 May 1862   Sir William Gage 1777 1864 [42]
10 November 1862   Sir Graham Hamond, Bt. 1779 1862 [43]
27 April 1863   Sir Francis Austen 1774 1865 [44]
27 April 1863   Sir William Parker, Bt. 1781 1866 [45]
11 January 1864   Sir Lucius Curtis 1786 1869 [46]
12 September 1865   Sir Thomas Cochrane 1789 1872 [47]
30 November 1866   Sir George Seymour 1787 1870 [48]
30 January 1868   Sir James Gordon 1782 1869 on the Retired List [49]
15 January 1869   Sir William Bowles 1780 1869 [50]
2 July 1869   Sir George Sartorius 1790 1885 [51]
21 January 1870   Sir Fairfax Moresby 1786 1877 [52]
20 October 1872   Sir Houston Stewart 1791 1875 [53]
11 December 1875   Sir Provo Wallis 1791 1892 [54]
22 January 1877   Sir Henry Codrington 1808 1877 [55]
5 August 1877   Sir Henry Keppel 1809 1904 [56]
27 December 1877   The Earl of Lauderdale 1803 1878 [57]
27 December 1877   Sir Rodney Mundy 1805 1884 [57]
15 June 1879   Sir James Hope 1808 1881 [58]
15 June 1879   Sir Thomas Symonds 1813 1894 [58]
10 June 1881   Sir Alexander Milne, Bt. 1806 1896 on the Retired List [59]
1 December 1881   Sir Charles Elliot 1818 1895 [60]
29 April 1885   Sir Alfred Ryder 1820 1888 [61]
18 July 1887   King Edward VII 1841 1910 Honorary appointment to non-Navy royalty and at that time The Prince of Wales [62]
1 May 1888   Sir Geoffrey Hornby 1825 1895 [63]
8 December 1888   Lord John Hay 1827 1916 First Sea Lord 1886 [64]
2 August 1889   Emperor William II 1859 1941 Honorary, to foreign royalty [65]
13 February 1892   Sir John Commerell 1829 1901 [66]
3 June 1893   The Duke of Edinburgh
(later The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)		 1844 1900 [67]
20 February 1895   The Earl of Clanwilliam 1832 1907 [68]
23 August 1897   Sir Algernon Lyons 1833 1908 [69]
29 November 1898   Sir Frederick Richards 1833 1912 First Sea Lord 1893–1899 [70]
13 January 1899   Sir Nowell Salmon 1835 1912 [71]
3 October 1902   Sir James Erskine 1838 1911 [72]
30 August 1903   Sir Charles Hotham 1843 1925 [73]
16 June 1904   Lord Walter Kerr 1839 1927 First Sea Lord 1899–1904 [74]
20 February 1905   Sir Edward Seymour 1840 1929 [75]
5 December 1905   Sir John Fisher
(later The Lord Fisher)		 1841 1920 First Sea Lord 1905–1910 and 1914–1915 [76]
1 March 1907   Sir Arthur Wilson 1842 1921 First Sea Lord 1910–1911 [77]
11 June 1908   HIM Tsar Nicholas II of Russia 1868 1918 Honorary, to foreign royalty [78]
2 December 1908   Sir Gerard Noel 1845 1918 [79]
27 January 1910   Prince Henry of Prussia 1862 1929 Honorary, to foreign royalty [80]
30 April 1910   Sir Arthur Fanshawe 1847 1936 [81]
6 May 1910   King George V 1865 1936 [82]
20 March 1913   Sir William May 1849 1930 [83]
5 March 1915   Sir Hedworth Meux 1856 1929 [84]
2 April 1917   Sir George Callaghan 1852 1920 [85]
3 April 1919   The Viscount Jellicoe
(later The Earl Jellicoe)		 1859 1935 First Sea Lord 1916–1918 [86]
3 April 1919   Sir David Beatty
(later The Earl Beatty)		 1871 1936 First Sea Lord 1919–1927 [87]
31 July 1919   Sir Henry Jackson 1855 1929 First Sea Lord 1915–1916 [88]
1 November 1919   Sir Rosslyn Wemyss
(later The Lord Wester Wemyss)		 1864 1933 First Sea Lord 1918–1919 [89]
24 November 1920   Sir Cecil Burney
(later the Burney baronet)		 1858 1929 [90]
5 July 1921   Sir Doveton Sturdee, Bt. 1859 1925 [91]
19 August 1921   The Marquess of Milford Haven 1854 1921 First Sea Lord 1912–1914. On the Retired List [92]
31 July 1924   Sir Charles Madden, Bt. 1862 1935 First Sea Lord 1927–1930 [93]
8 May 1925   Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 1864 1937 [94]
24 November 1925   Sir John de Robeck, Bt. 1862 1928 [95]
21 January 1928   Sir Henry Oliver 1865 1965 [96]
31 July 1929   Sir Osmond Brock 1869 1947 [97]
8 May 1930   Sir Roger Keyes, Bt.
(later The Lord Keyes)		 1872 1945 [98]
21 January 1933   Sir Frederick Field 1871 1945 First Sea Lord 1930–1933 [99]
31 July 1934   Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Bt. 1870 1951 [100]
8 May 1935   Sir Ernle Chatfield
(later The Lord Chatfield)		 1873 1967 First Sea Lord 1933–1938 [101]
21 January 1936   King Edward VIII 1894 1972 [102]
12 July 1936 Sir John Kelly 1871 1936 [103]
11 December 1936   King George VI 1895 1952 [104]
21 January 1938   The Earl of Cork and Orrery 1873 1967 [105]
7 July 1939   Sir Roger Backhouse 1878 1939 First Sea Lord 1938–1939 [106]
31 July 1939   Sir Dudley Pound 1877 1943 First Sea Lord 1939–1943 [107]
8 May 1940   Sir Charles Forbes 1880 1960 [108]
21 January 1943   Sir Andrew Cunningham
(later The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope)		 1883 1963 First Sea Lord 1943–1946 [109]
22 October 1943   Sir John Tovey
(later The Lord Tovey)		 1885 1971 [110]
8 May 1945   Sir James Somerville 1882 1949 [111]
21 January 1948   Sir John Cunningham 1885 1965 First Sea Lord 1946–1948 [112]
22 October 1948   The Lord Fraser of North Cape 1888 1981 First Sea Lord 1948–1951 [113]
20 March 1949   Sir Algernon Willis 1889 1976 [114]
22 April 1952   Sir Arthur Power 1889 1960 [115]
1 June 1952   Sir Philip Vian 1894 1968 [116]
15 January 1953   The Duke of Edinburgh 1921 2021 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom 2011–2021 [117][118]
1 May 1953   Sir Rhoderick McGrigor 1893 1959 First Sea Lord 1951–1955 [119]
22 April 1955   Sir George Creasy 1895 1972 [120]
22 October 1956   The Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900 1979 First Sea Lord 1955–1959
Chief of the Defence Staff 1959–1965		 [121]
10 May 1960 Sir Charles Lambe 1900 1960 First Sea Lord 1959–1960 [122]
23 May 1962 Sir Caspar John 1903 1984 First Sea Lord 1960–1963 [123]
12 August 1968 Sir Varyl Begg 1908 1995 First Sea Lord 1966–1968 [124]
30 June 1970 Sir Michael Le Fanu 1913 1970 First Sea Lord 1968–1970 [125]
12 March 1971   Sir Peter Hill-Norton
(later The Lord Hill-Norton)		 1915 2004 First Sea Lord 1970–1971
Chief of the Defence Staff 1971–1973		 [126]
1 March 1974   Sir Michael Pollock 1916 2006 First Sea Lord 1971–1974 [127]
9 February 1977 Sir Edward Ashmore 1919 2016 First Sea Lord 1974–1977
Chief of the Defence Staff 1977		 [128]
6 July 1979 Sir Terence Lewin
(later The Lord Lewin)		 1920 1999 First Sea Lord 1977–1979
Chief of the Defence Staff 1979–1982		 [129]
1 December 1982 Sir Henry Leach 1923 2011 First Sea Lord 1979–1982 [130]
2 August 1985   Sir John Fieldhouse
(later The Lord Fieldhouse)		 1928 1992 First Sea Lord 1982–1985
Chief of the Defence Staff 1985–1988		 [131][132]
12 April 1988   King Olav V of Norway 1903 1991 Honorary, to foreign royalty [133]
25 May 1989 Sir William Staveley 1928 1997 First Sea Lord 1985–1989 [134]
2 March 1993 Sir Julian Oswald 1933 2011 First Sea Lord 1989–1993 [135]
10 July 1995   Sir Benjamin Bathurst 1936 Living First Sea Lord 1993–1995 [136]
16 June 2012   King Charles III 1948 Living Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom since 2022
Honorary appointment and at that time The Prince of Wales
Assumed the rank in full capacity on the day following accession to the throne.		 [137]
13 June 2014   The Lord Boyce 1943 2022 First Sea Lord 1998–2001
Chief of the Defence Staff 2001–2003. Honorary rank		 [138]
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