admiralty

Bogrov had a strong following in the Admiralty and amongst the officers of the old guard.

Hint: Look at the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship that was current at that time and their recommendations when faced with an iceberg.

One datapoint: Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804--1845, was part of a British envoy to China in the 1790s.

The Board of Admiralty had responsibility for the administration of the Royal Navy.

I was excited to click the link, but they look nothing like the admiralty charts that I grew up with sailing.

The Earl of Sandwich was not a naval officer; the First Lord of the Admiralty was the chair of the Board of Admiralty, which was a committee formed to undertake the duties of the office of Lord High Admiral.

It has nothing to do with the modern American legal system; the US does not have separate admiralty courts and all maritime cases fall under the jurisdiction of federal district courts.

However the admiralty, who included a number of men who had served on said ships, shared an emotional attachment to the old-war-dog fleet which they had earned their stars and stripes on.

As a specific example, William Churchill's leadership of the British Admiralty during the Gallipoli Campaign[2] in World War 2 was - in my view - completely immoral (as well as terrible ineffective).

The American Courts of Admiralty seem to be forming by degrees into a system that is to overturn our Constitution and to deprive us of our best inheritance, the laws of the land.

The state has created a legal 'person' with your birth certificate, but as long as you avoid creating joinder you are not bound to this admiralty law and are free from the sea of commerce.

Oil was replacing coal to fuel the British Royal Navy -- the world's largest -- pushing the Admiralty to go into the oil business in southern Iran and inaugurating modern petroleum diplomacy in the Middle East.

It would be thought in England a dangerous innovation if the trial, of any matter on land was given to the admiralty." -- Jackson v.

The only time I've heard admiralty law mentioned is in conjunction with "freemen of the land" and other weirdness; what is the issue with it?

> "Forfeiture has its basis in British admiralty law" British admiralty law is the bane of the American legal system: "Next to revenue (taxes) itself, the late extensions of the jurisdiction of the admiralty are our greatest grievance.

Since then, reading the "Essay on Realistic Space Combat"[2] took a lot out of the fun of those sorts of considerations, as you realise that actual space combat would be more like relativistic cold wars and sudden genocide[3] than the dashing image of privateering and admiralty fleet manoeuvres.

This is during the 'phony war' when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and not yet PM.

Admiralty courts used to only have jurisdiction over the sea as far as the tides ran up the rivers.

Not at out end we used to get data back from some of our partners (Admiralty Research Establishment at Portland from memory) in paper tape form - I had a few paper cuts from our high-speed paper tape reader.