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flag captain

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noun

  1. the captain of a flagship

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

The point was immediately conceded, and Captain Crosbie was appointed flag captain.

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

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