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Перевод: admiralty

[существительное]
адмиральское звание; адмиралтейство; морское министерство

Тезаурус:

1. Although the socialist ILP played a leading role in agitations against the "arms ring", exposure of the close links between naval officers, Admiralty bureaucrats and their private industrial suppliers did not necessarily lead pacifists to draw socialist conclusions.
2. National Maritime Museum (London) Public records including Admiralty, Navy Board and dockyard muniments for seventeenth-nineteenth centuries are maintained.
3. REAR-ADMIRAL GARTH WATSON, who has died aged 78, had three distinguished careers: as an Admiralty engineer; as one of the first officers of the newly formed Naval Electrical Branch; and as an outstanding secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
4. The network centring on Macaulay as secretary of the African Institution also provided evidence and argument which persuaded the Admiralty to order naval vessels to act against foreign slave traders, even to the point of illegality.
5. While it was stretched over the whole length of imperial communications, its most dangerous possible rival was the more easily concentrated French fleet; the prospect of a descent on the Channel ports still preoccupied the Admiralty.
6. Its weakness was its technical conservatism; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships, the armoured cruisers Imprieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year, were still designed to carry a full spread of sail.
7. This marks the site of one of the Admiralty's measured nautical miles.
8. In the autumn of 1751, for example, Alexander Hume Campbell, the brother of the Earl of Marchmont, and member of parliament for Berwickshire, wrote to Lord Anson, the First Lord of the Admiralty, telling him how important it was to his interest that Lieutenant James Home should be made a post-captain, and reminding Lord Anson that this favour had already been promised to Lord Marchmont during a conversation in the House of Lords.
9. She sent a silent message winging to the small room at the Admiralty.
10. On this occasion Crabb was carrying out experiments in which the Admiralty had a peripheral interest, but it would not be in the national interest to detail them, and unfortunately he drowned and his body was swept out to sea.
11. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions, without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken.
12. The Admiralty stood its ground on the principle of always maintaining a balanced fleet, based on a limited number of capital ships, which, in 1957, were generally agreed to be the aircraft-carriers.
13. As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage, for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage, there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships.