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flag captain

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noun

  1. the captain of a flagship

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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 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 Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of

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

His flag captain, Cay, went down with him.

From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert