flag captain

noun

"That speaks well indeed for our young commander," the port admiral, who had been present, said to his flag-captain.

Thirdly, the same countryside happened to include the village which was the birthplace of Nelson's flag-captain at Trafalgar.

At about the same instant Collingwood was saying to his flag-captain, "Rotherham, what would Nelson give to be here!"

He read it by the reflected light from the binnacle, grinned amusedly, and handed it to the Flag Captain.

He was a great friend of their father, and, said the boys, was most likely to make him his flag-captain.

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