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.]

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  1.  A naval officer ranking next to an admiral.

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1520.  in 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.

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1562.  Act 5 Eliz., c. 5 § 33. The Lorde Admirall of Englande … or … any his Viceadmiralles.

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1589.  Bigges, Summarie Drake’s W. Ind. Voy., 21. The Lieutenant generall, the Vizeadmirall, and all the rest of the Captaines.

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1604.  E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. xi. 156. Returning now to the Viceadmiralles shippe,… they tooke the sea.

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1620.  R. Cocks, Diary (Hakl. Soc.), II. 121. The admerall and vizadmerall gave hym to understand shipps were ready to departe.

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1670.  Covel, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.), 102. Capt. Robinson in the Greenwich, as Admiral,… and Capt. Wild, in the Assurance, as Vice-Admiral.

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1726.  Swift, Gulliver, Lilliput, viii. I … desired his Imperial Majesty to lend me … three thousand seamen under the command of his vice-admiral.

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1777.  R. Watson, Philip II., II. 259. Philip … giving him Martinez de Recaldo, a seaman of great experience, for his vice-admiral.

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1833.  Penny Cycl., I. 126/2. There are also vice-admirals and rear-admirals of each flag, the former ranking with lieutenant generals … in the army.

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1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade, s.v., There are vice-admirals of three grades, who hoist respectively a red, white, or blue flag.

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  b.  (See quot. 1769.)

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a. 1618.  Raleigh, Royal Navy (1650), 37. If the Vice-Admirall of the Shire where men are mustered … had directions given, to joyn with the Mustermasters.

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1710.  J. 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.].

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1769.  Falconer, 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.

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1875.  Encycl. Brit., I. 159/2.

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  c.  (See ADMIRAL sb. 4.)

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1698.  Act 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.

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1708.  [see ADMIRAL sb. 4].

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  † 2.  A vessel commanded by a vice-admiral. Obs.

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c. 1595.  Capt. 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.

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1598.  W. Phillip, trans. Linschoten, I. ii. 4/1. Their names were the Admirall S. Phillip: the Vize Admirall S. Iacob. These were two new ships, one bearing the name of the King, the other of his sonne.

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1629.  Wadsworth, Pilgr., iv. 34. The Captaine of the Vice-Admirall … began to encourage his Marriners.

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1660.  Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., II. (1682), 180. Lysander commanded the Vice-Admiral.

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1693.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 9. Another Tripoline, their vice admiral, was the next day taken by the Malta gallies.

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  attrib.  1706.  Stevens, Span. Dict., I. Almiranta, the Vice Admiral Ship of a Fleet.

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  3.  Conch., A variety of shell of the genus Conus.

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1819.  [see ADMIRAL sb. 7].

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  Hence Vice-admiralship.

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1677.  Sir C. Wyche, in Essex Papers (Camden), II. 118. That some man of integrity should succeed him in ye vice Admiralship of Munster.

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