What is "naval commander"

Usage examples of "naval commander".

For the first time since 1807, when Commodore James Barron gave up the USS Chesapeake after it was bombarded and boarded by the crew of the HMS Leopard off Cape Henry, Virginia, an American naval commander had surrendered his ship in peacetime.

The third man - it seemed most incongruous in the circumstances - wore the peaked braided cap of a naval commander.

Ghormley, USN, was Commander, South Pacific, and Senior Naval Commander for the Guadalcanal Operation.

Farragut, as naval commander in chief, had chosen her as his flagship for the beginning of the operation.

The Axumite naval commander-he was a native-born Ethiopian-gave Ousanas a sour glance.

Benjamin Mayhew IX, Planetary Protector of Grayson, snipped another rose and laid it in the servant's basket, then turned to regard his naval commander in chief sternly.

It was ordered in to attack by the local naval commander, but we've heard nothing more from the boat.

Dudley Saltonstall, the naval commander, might have moved in to destroy the two armed British sloops guarding the river, thereby giving the militia cover, but he chose not to do so, and the chance for a quick victory was lost.

That didn't even come close to qualifying him to command a joint space-ground campaign in his own right, so he'd grabbed Yearman as his official second-in-command and de facto naval commander.

Behind this, just climbing to his feet, was a naval Commander, well past middle-age.

Captain Pir agreed with Ashiant but Captain Spktm, who was the senior naval commander, was not totally convinced.