- See Port Admiral for other meanings.
Port Admiral is an honorific rank in the United States Navy, for the senior officer of the ships in a naval dockyard. Examples include Samuel Livingston Breese from 1869 to 1870 in Philadelphia. The Port Admiral usually has a flagship, examples of which include USS Roanoke for the New York Port Admiral from 1865 to 1874.
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