Admiralissimo

Admiralissimo is an informal title for a chief naval officer, and is a naval equivalent of generalissimo.

List of senior naval officers referred to as admiralissimo

• Hayreddin Barbarossa – 15th/16th-century Turkish admiral
• Albrecht von Wallenstein – admiral of the Baltic Sea
• John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe – British admiral of the fleet
• Lord Charles Beresford – British 19th/20th-century admiral
• Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère – Commander-in-Chief of France's Mediterranean forces
• George Dewey – American Admiral of the Navy
• Deodoro da Fonseca – Brazilian 19th-century admiral

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