The Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland was both an admiral's post and a naval formation of the Royal Navy. It was based at Queenstown, now Cobh, in Ireland from 1793 to 1919. The admiral's headquart
Queenstown harbour in 1871
Admiralty House, Cobh, residence of the Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland Station from 1886 to 1922
Admiral of the Blue Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napole
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
British Admirals - Brittania Viewing the Conquerors of the Seas - Roberts, 1800 - Admiral Kingsmill shown top left
Admiral Sir Robert Kingsmill