Admiralty in the 16th century has organized the fleet into squadrons from at early 13th century and certainly during the 16th century. In 1560 three squadrons were operating in the Channel, Irish Sea and North Sea Until the 16th century, admirals were high officials under kings, and were charged with protecting the realm from sea attack. The English navy's Narrow Seas Squadron also called as the Eastern Squadron mainly operated in the two seas which laying between England and Kingdom of France (the English Channel particularly the Straits of Dover) and England and the Spanish Netherlands later the Dutch Republic (the southern North Sea). Include:
St Patrick's Day (play) St Patrick's Day (play) St Patrick's Day, or, The Scheming Lieutenant is an 18th-century play by Irish playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), first performed on 2 May 1775 at Covent Garden. It is said to have completed by the author within two days. Sheridan wrote the two-act farce for the benefit performance of lead actor Lawrence Clinch, who had so successfully played Sir Lucius O'Trigger in his previous play The Rivals. Scene — a town in country England. The action of the play takes place on St Patrick's day. The farcical Irish hero Lieutenant O'Connor is in love