Provveditore Generale da Mar

The Provveditore Generale da Mar was the supreme commander of the Venetian fleet in peacetime.

Eventually this appointment became regularized, as the Provveditore Generale del Levante; with his seat at Corfu, the Provveditore Generale da Mar was the senior civil and military governor of the Ionian Islands in peacetime.

[3][4] Typically he hoisted his ensign on a bastard galley, although in later times he was allowed to use a sailing ship of the line instead.

[5] In wartime, due to his absence at the head of the fleet, he was sometimes replaced by a Provveditore Generale delle Tre Isole (lit.

[3][4] The office was abolished after the Fall of the Republic of Venice and the start of French rule in the Ionian Islands in June 1797.