Sentence examples for command of the battleship from inspiring English sources

Vice Admiral Pratt took command of the Battleship Divisions, Battle Fleet in a brief ceremony on 24 September 1927.

Pratt took command of the battleship divisions with the expectation that he would stay less than a year in the billet and would then "fleet up" to CINCUS.

On 30 June he assumed command of the battleship.

On 25 April, CAPT Larry Ray Seaquist assumed command of the battleship and her crew.

Thompson depicts Moosally, the ship's captain, as an inept seaman who gained command of the battleship through political connections.

Captain Wolf Junge assumed command of the battleship in May 1944, replacing Captain Hans Meyer who had been wounded during Operation Tungsten.

In 1914 Dewar was appointed commander (second-in-command) of the battleship Prince of Wales, then flagship of the 5th Battle Squadron in the 2nd Fleet Home Fleetss).

His last command was of the battleship.

In October 1939, after World War II had begun, Krancke took command of the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which raided Allied maritime commerce over the next two years.

Promoted to captain (1874), he commanded various ships and the gunnery school and took a prominent part in the bombardment of Alexandria (1882) as commander of the battleship Inflexible.

Mervyn S. Bennion, commander of the battleship West Virginia.