who commands a ship when an Admiral and the Captain is on a same ship?
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The CO is typicaly the Captain.
Whenever an Admiral is on bourd, thier role is usualy as the leader of the Task Force, Group or Unit of ships, operation, mission or whatever.
An Admiral can take control of the ship but its prety much unheard of outside of war exercises where lets say “suddenly” its announced that X portion of the crew is out of action.
Let me give you a real example. I was with the Danish Navy, where every crewmember is given a number in the 101-399 range The crew is equalily divided in the 100s place, so every 3rd crewmember has a 100, 200 or 300 number. My number on my last deployment was 214. Meaning: I was on 2nd shift, (hundred). 1 was my department/role (tens) and 4th member of the team (single digit).
In the war exercise, in the middle of the simelated battle, it was announced shipwide that we had hit a mine and everyone with a 100 number was either dead or injoured. Suddenly the Captain was no longer in command as he had number 101. And earlier the 2nd in command was also out of action for another reason. So instead of disrupting the command structure completely, the Admiral took command and carried on with the exercise until the sudden “emergency” was under control.
And I must say, it was quite fun becouse noone but us guys at the radiostation and the Operations Officer knew about this added element as the command had come directly from the Admiralty as a test for the Admiral.
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