Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands The Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally known as the Orkneys and Shetlands Command; they were charged with the administration of the Orkney and Shetland Islands and operating and defending the fleet base at Scapa Flow that was the main anchorage for both the Home Fleet and Grand Fleet at various times. The Orkney and Shetland command was usually only formed at the outbreak of war to provide for the defence and administration of the main base for the
Eyalet of the Archipelago Islands. Eyalet of the Archipelago The Eyalet of the Archipelago (, "Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd", "Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea") was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire. From its inception until the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-19th century, it was under the personal control of the Kapudan Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy. During the early period of the Ottoman Empire, the commander of the Ottoman fleet (the "Derya Begi", "Bey of the Sea") also held the governorship of the "sanjak" of Gallipoli, which was the principal Ottoman naval base until the construction of