Admiralissimo
Informal title for a chief naval officer
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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