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In France, vice-amiral is the most senior of the ranks in the French Navy; higher ranks, vice-amiral d'escadre and amiral, are permanent functions, style and position (in French rang et appellation) given to a vice-amiral-ranking officer. The vice-amiral rank used to be an OF-8 rank in NATO charts, but nowadays, it is more an OF-7 rank.
The rank of vice-amiral d'escadre (literally, "squadron vice-admiral", with more precision, "fleet vice-admiral") equals a NATO OF-8 rank.
In the ancien régime Navy, between 1669 and 1791. The office of "Vice-Admiral of France" (Vice-amiral de France) was the highest rank, the supreme office of "Admiral of France" being purely ceremonial.
Distincts offices were :
- 1669-1791 Vice-admiral of the West (Atlantic Ocean).
- 1669-1791 Vice-admiral of the East (Mediterranean Sea).
- 1778-1791 Vice-admiral of the Asian and American Seas (American shores).
- 1784-1788 Vice-admiral of the Indian Seas (Indian Ocean).
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