flag captain
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain?"
From Time Magazine Archive
He then died of a shattered spine after bidding farewell to his flag captain, Thomas Hardy.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
Mortally wounded, he called to his flag captain, "Fight the ship as long as she swims," and then fell dead.
From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Charles Henry Wood
His flag captain, Cay, went down with him.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
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