flag captain
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He then died of a shattered spine after bidding farewell to his flag captain, Thomas Hardy.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The work of loading was finished soon after the calamity to my bark, and a Spanish sailing-master was engaged to take her to Montevideo; my son Victor going as flag captain.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua
He left all that to his flag captain, my friend Bruat, a most energetic officer.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
At length an overt act was committed in the appointment of Captain Spry as my flag captain on board the O'Higgins, which had been repaired at Valdivia, and was now come down to Valparaiso.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
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