flag captain

Historical Examples

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

  The Stokesley Secret

  Charlotte M. Yonge

• You wish a situation, you say; and, if I were an Admiral, I would make you my flag-captain.

  The Red Rover

  James Fenimore Cooper

• Frank, as his flag-captain, took part in the chase after Villeneuve to the West Indies and back.

  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters

  William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

• Can you inform me, sir,” said he to the flag-captain, “whether the Zenobia or Orestes sail with the squadron?

  The Poacher

  Frederick Marryat

• His splendid conduct while flag-captain to Admiral Kergarouet was written in visible letters on his scarred face.

  Beatrix

  Honore de Balzac