post captain

British  

noun

1. history (formerly) a naval officer holding a commission as a captain, as distinct from an officer with the courtesy title of captain

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Example Sentences

In 1802 he was promoted post captain by Lord St Vincent.

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Entering the service at a very early age, and in troublous times, Captain Marryat gained rapid promotion, and had been in no less than fifty-nine naval engagements before he was twenty-one, and with the single exception of Lord Nelson he was the youngest Post Captain ever known, having indeed attained that rank at the age of twenty-four.

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He was “capitaine de vaisseau,” or post captain, in 1756.

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Of course we all lived aft, and dined in state together in the great cabin, where once a post captain had sat at meals or in council of war, and in which, probably, before now court-martials had been assembled and men tried for life itself.

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Next came a gentleman in naval uniform, whom I gladly recognised as my former acquaintance, "The Post Captain;" for the last time "We met—'twas in a crowd"—and I had not an opportunity of saying more than a few words to him.

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