Sentence examples for master captain from inspiring English sources
On Feb. 24, the Virginia received her master, Captain Franklin Buchanan, a 61-year-old Marylander who was a 46-year veteran of the old Navy.
Additionally, the ship is interesting for the number of significant named individuals associated with it - including the vessel's builder (the early 15th century Southampton merchant and MP, William Soper); the vessel's master (captain), Jordan Brownyng; and one of Henry's top military commanders, Sir Thomas Carew.
In a letter to the Royal Geographical Society he wrote: "The general bearing of the master (Captain Fairweather) was far from being favourable to scientific work".
Local harbour master Captain Dave Duncan had no choice but to allow it, although he admitted he still didn't have the cojones to strike up a conversation with the man.
The master, Captain F. D. Struss, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and went on to complete 40 years service with the line after surviving another sinking in the Second World War.
Upon sighting the Japanese ships, Behars master, Captain Maurice Symonds, ordered that that his radio operator transmit the "RRR" code in order to notify other ships and Allied bases that the merchant ship was being attacked by surface raiders.
Henry put England's navy on an entirely new footing – with 25 salaried ship masters (captains), regular maritime patrols, new cutting-edge technology and even an attempt to combat the piracy that was endemic in the English Channel.
And the spaceship captains, station masters and traders of her "Downbelow Station" turn out, as often as not, to be female -one, eight months pregnant during the worst of the fighting.
In 1849, William Tecumseh Sherman, a young Army officer in the Sierra, reported: "Not only did soldiers and sailors desert, but captains and masters of ships actually abandoned their vessels and cargoes to try their luck at the mines.
However, reappointed as Captain-General, Master-General of Ordnance, and Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, Marlborough once more became a person of influence and respect at court.
