Rear Admiral Graves, repeated the signal, but in a place invisible to most other ships while keeping Nelson's 'close action' signal at his masthead.

Admiral Graves may refer to:

Against him, on the 5th of September, came Admiral Graves, with an inferior force.

Admiral Graves, in HMS Somerset, awoke to the sound of gunfire he hadn't ordered.

The town received from General Gage and Admiral Graves the following responses:

Admiral Graves replied as follows:

The two sloops had been "prest" into service by Admiral Graves as the first British "prizes" of the Revolutionary War.

Admiral Graves also did not suffer due to his defeat by de Grasse; he was eventually promoted to full admiral and given a peerage.

When Admiral Graves was relieved in December 1775, these punitive raids were gradually abandoned.

On 17 September 1782, the fleet under Admiral Graves was caught in a violent storm off the banks of Newfoundland.