List of Lord High Admirals and Vice-Admirals of the Royal Scots Admiralty

Lord High Admirals

 * Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney - to Robert III
 * George Crichton, 1st Earl of Caithness - to James II
 * William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness and 3rd Earl of Orkney - to James II


 * 1476 David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford, later Duke of Montrose
 * 1482 Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany
 * 1488 Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell
 * James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran
 * Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
 * Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell


 * 1508 Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell heritably
 * 1513 Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, attainted
 * 1556 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, exiled
 * 1568 James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, beheaded
 * 1581 Francis Stewart, 1st Earl of Bothwell attainted
 * 1626 James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox heritably
 * John Earl of Linlithgow, during minority of Duke of Lennox


 * 1633 James Duke of Lennox and Gordon (d 1672)
 * 1668 Alexander Bruce, 3rd Earl of Kincardine (vice admiral)
 * 1673 James, Duke of York later James VII
 * William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton
 * Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox


 * 1705 James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
 * 1706 David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss

Vice-Admirals
office not filled
 * 1708 David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss
 * 1714 John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes
 * 1722 Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
 * 1729 John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
 * 1733 George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton
 * 1738 James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater
 * 1764 John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford
 * 1767 William Douglas, 3rd Earl of March, later Duke of Queensberry
 * 1776 John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
 * 1782 Lord William Gordon, brother of Duke of Gordon
 * 1795 William, Lord Cathcart (died 16 Jun 1843)