Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...

Sir Henry Chads (27 October 1819 – 29 June 1906) was a

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officer who went on to be

Commander-in-Chief, The Nore The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally known as the Nore Station or Nore Command. The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Th ...

Naval career

Born the son of Admiral Sir

Henry Ducie Chads Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, (24 February 1788 – 7 April 1868) was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw action from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War. Family background Chads was born in Marylebone, London, the eldest son of Captain ...

, Henry Chads joined the

in 1832 and went on to take part in operations against Malay pirates in the

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. Promoted to

Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

in 1848, he commanded HMS ''Portland'', HMS ''Amphion'', HMS ''Conway'', HMS ''Nile'' and then HMS ''London''. He was appointed Captain-Superintendent of

Deptford Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, within the London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford D ...

Dockyard in 1863 and

in 1876 before retiring in 1884. He lived at Portland House in

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and there is a memorial to him in St Judes Church in

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Naval career

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