Putting an Admiral on a different ship

[Zarky]

The admiral does move from ship to ship if his ship is just scuppered, when I destroyed Ottoman starting fleet you can only imagine how confused I was when I sank the ship, 1 ship disappeared but the admirals face stayed...

[Durallan]

I actually thought I could do this in version 1.0 when i first got and tried playing the game, I seem to remember being able to do something like that, but in 1.2 and 1.3 I couldn't, now I'm not entirely sure if I was ever actually able to, things are a bit blurry for me