flag officer - a senior naval officer above the rank of captain

Bligh, Captain Bligh, William Bligh - British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)

Drake, Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake - English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

Admiral Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Lord Nelson, Nelson, Viscount Nelson - English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

Isoroku Yamamoto, Yamamoto - Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943)