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
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 Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
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
Nevertheless the credit of certain developments which were introduced at this time must still remain with the duke and his advisers: Rupert, Sandwich, Lawson, and probably above all Penn, his flag captain.
From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
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