Sentence examples for command of the vessel from inspiring English sources
Traditionally, command of the vessel is assigned to a Navy Commander.
Almost 800 migrants, mostly Syrian refugees, landed in Italy the following day after the Italian rescue services took command of the vessel.
That night, after dining with Cemortan, Schettino invited her to the bridge of the cruise liner, where he took command of the vessel.
In an operation fraught with danger, an Italian air force helicopter lowered six coastguards on to the deck of the Ezadeen so that they could regain command of the vessel.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been on the International Space Station since December 2012 and in command of the vessel since March.
Shortly afterward, chronic illness forced Shaw to transfer command of the vessel to Lieutenant Andrew Sterett.
Chakotay was given a provisional rank of Lieutenant Commander and named Executive Officer, the second-in-command of the vessel and the crew seek to return home to the Alpha Quadrant.
He went as a volunteer with Legge to, had a stint as acting commander of and in April 1795 he was in temporary command of the bomb vessel.
There is an irony in the fact that the only people on the Tampa brought ashore in Australia were the four Indonesian people-smugglers in command of the endangered vessel from which the Tampa rescued the refugees.
Pohl took command of the spar torpedo vessel, an early, experimental torpedo boat, in 1882.
