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Flagship

noun

The chief one of a related group.

The ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag.

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"Flagship" Quotes from Famous Books

... never be a—a 'mutinous rogue,'" he said, and turned to aid Dorothy aboard with the air of an admiral on his flagship. ...

— My Lady Caprice • Jeffrey Farnol

... the Dogger Bank fight, Lion, the flagship of Sir David Beatty, was crippled. Some people say she was torpedoed, almost miraculously, by a Hun destroyer from five miles' range (which version is ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 19, 1919 • Various

... reckon," called out Jack, after he had taken a survey about him. "There's the signal from the flagship, Tom. We've got to keep the red lantern ahead of us and fall into line. There go the bombers to the center, and our place you said was on the ...

— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach

... the building of war vessels as promptly as possible, five cruisers first of all. The Alfred, on which John Paul Jones was lieutenant, became the flagship of Commander-in-Chief Esek Hopkins. This vessel was of English build and had been employed in commerce for nine or ten years, making two voyages to the Indian Ocean during that time. She had space ...

— The Little Book of the Flag • Eva March Tappan

... this job we watched the signalers flashing the war news from the stern of our boat to the bridge of the next astern, the Virginian. The news is flashed at night by the lamps—short and long flashes. The news is picked up by wireless on the flagship, the Charybdis, at the head of our line and signaled back from ...

— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene

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