Sentence examples for command of the submarine from inspiring English sources

Commander Waddle was in command of the submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9, when the attack submarine surfaced rapidly in a demonstration of emergency procedures, crashing into and sinking the Ehime Maru, a 174-foot Japanese fishery training trawler.

David J. Bartholomew, who took command of the submarine about a year ago and was the 2003 winner of the Jack Darby Award for Inspirational Leadership and Excellence of Command, it was an abrupt end to a highly promising career.

Vice admiral Sir Tim McClement was second-in-command of the submarine HMS Conqueror which fired the torpedoes at the Argentinian warship, causing the loss of 323 lives.

Command of the U-boat passed to Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Lüth, who would go on to become the second most successful German submarine commander of the war.

He was first assigned to the battleship, and later became commanding officer of the submarine.

Richard Voter, was relieved of command on Saturday of the submarine Oklahoma City, which struck a Norwegian commercial vessel on Nov. 13 while surfacing near Gibraltar.

A return to the Mediterranean for five months in 1943, as second-in-command of the Beirut submarine base in his new rank of commander, led to a meeting with the writer Anita Leslie, whom he married in 1949.

At his retirement from the Navy in 1974, he was the vice admiral in command of all submarine warfare operations.

He pulls political strings to steal command of another submarine from an ambitious younger officer named Jim Bledsoe, played by Burt Lancaster as a spit-and-polish Navy stud with posture so ramrod-straight you could load him in a torpedo tube and shoot him at the enemy.

A small force was left behind under the command of Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell consisting of the submarine tender, the submarine rescue ship, gunboats, and, minesweepers, and, five tugboats, three small patrol boats, and the PT boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three.

He took part in war patrols on the submarine Gar before assuming command of the Tirante.