Senior naval officer
Vice admiral
is a senior naval
flag officer
rank, usually equivalent to
lieutenant general
and
air marshal
. A vice admiral is typically senior to a
rear admiral
and junior to an
admiral
.
Australia
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In the
Royal Australian Navy
, the rank of
vice admiral
is held by the
Chief of Navy
and, when the positions are held by navy officers, by the
Vice Chief of the Defence Force
, the
Chief of Joint Operations
, and/or the
Chief of Capability Development Group
.
[
citation needed
]
Vice admiral is the equivalent of
air marshal
in the
Royal Australian Air Force
and
lieutenant general
in the
Australian Army
.
[
citation needed
]
Canada
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In the
Royal Canadian Navy
, the rank of vice-admiral (VAdm) (
vice-amiral
or
Vam
in
French
) is equivalent to
lieutenant-general
of the
Canadian Army
and
Royal Canadian Air Force
. A vice-admiral is a
flag officer
, the naval equivalent of a
general officer
. A vice-admiral is senior to a
rear-admiral
and
major general
, and junior to an
admiral
and
general
.
The rank insignia of a Canadian vice-admiral is as follows:
- On the
navy blue
mess dress jacket and the navy blue service dress tunic: the cuff insignia is one wide gold braid below two standard size gold braids, the superior one includes the executive curl.
- On tropical white mess dress and tropical white service dress tunic: three silver maple leaves, beneath silver crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown located on gold shoulder boards.
Two rows of gold oak leaves are located on the black visor of the white service cap. From 1968 to June 2010, the navy blue service dress tunic featured only a wide gold braid around the cuff with three gold maple leaves, beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown located on cloth shoulder straps.
Vice-admirals are addressed by rank and name; thereafter by subordinates as "Sir" or "Ma'am". Vice-admirals are normally entitled to a
staff car
; the car will normally bear a flag, dark blue with three gold maple leaves arranged one over two.
A vice-admiral generally holds only the most senior command or administrative appointments, barring only
Chief of Defence Staff
, which is held by a full
admiral
or
general
. Appointments held by vice-admirals may include:
Charles III
holds the honorary rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.
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France
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In
France
,
vice-amiral
is the most senior of the
ranks in the French Navy
; higher ranks,
vice-amiral d'escadre
and
amiral
, are permanent functions, styles and positions (in French
rangs et appellations
) given to a
vice-amiral
-ranking officer. The
vice-amiral
rank used to be an OF-8 rank in NATO charts, but nowadays, it is more an OF-7 rank.
The rank of
vice-amiral d'escadre
(literally, "
squadron vice-admiral
", with more precision, "fleet vice-admiral") equals a NATO OF-8 rank.
In the
ancien regime
Navy, between 1669 and 1791. The office of "Vice-Admiral of France" (
Vice-amiral de France
) was the highest rank, the supreme office of "Admiral of France" being purely ceremonial.
Distinct offices were :
- 1669?1791 Vice-admiral of the West (
Atlantic Ocean
).
- 1669?1791 Vice-admiral of the East (
Mediterranean Sea
).
- 1778?1791 Vice-admiral of the Asian and American Seas (American shores).
- 1784?1788 Vice-admiral of the Indian Seas (
Indian Ocean
).
Philippines
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In the
Philippines
, the rank vice admiral is the highest-ranking official of the
Philippine Navy
. He is recognized as the flag officer in-command of the navy, an equivalent post to the Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy.
[
citation needed
]
Poland
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Before World War II, the vice admiral was the highest rank in the Polish Navy.
Jozef Unrug
was one of the only two officers to achieve the rank. The other was
Jerzy ?wirski
. Poland had only one sovereign sea port,
Port of Gdynia
, and was slowly building a small modern navy that was to be ready by 1950. The navy was not a priority for obvious reasons. At present, it is a "two-star" rank. The stars are not used; however, the stars were used in between 1952 and 1956 and are still used in the vice admiral's pennant.
[
citation needed
]
United Kingdom
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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
, and that of "
Vice-Admiral of the Coast
", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.
[
citation needed
]
National ranks
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NATO code
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While the rank of vice admiral is used in most of NATO countries, it is ranked differently depending on the country.
Gallery
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