Admiralties, moreover, and Governor-Generalships and Viceroyships cannot be conferred by counts and dukes, however powerful; the very title Don could only be conferred by one power in Spain; and all the other titles and dignities that Columbus craved with all his Genoese soul were to be had from the hands of kings, and not from plutocrats.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
The large French and German companies' steamers are at the disposal of their Admiralties."
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann
In beginning their labours they had one great advantage: European scientists had already made considerable progress in this work, and the results of their studies were at once placed at our disposal by the Allied Admiralties.
"The Victory At Sea"
William Sowden Sims Burton J. Hendrick