Her last flag captain had almost become a case in point.

"It's another thing I can't understand why nobody else ever thought of," the flag captain said.

He nodded in decision and turned sharply to his flag captain.

Yet whatever anyone else thought of her, she was now Sarnow's flag captain.

Black Water looked at him, one eyebrow raised, and the flag captain shrugged.

No one could possibly have heard what he said to the flag captain, but the conversation lasted only a minute or so.

"Yes, they are, and in considerable strength," his flag captain said.

He gave the necessary orders to the flag captain.

Attached to a task group that you're flag captain of!"

The flag captain stood in the chartroom door, and his expression was concerned.

"Not with anything my chief of staff and flag captain can't handle," Matthews said, waving away her thanks.

There probably hadn't been much chance of avoiding it, but she was Sarnow's flag captain.

"Thank you," Honor said, equally quietly, then shook herself and turned back to her new flag captain.

Her flag captain returned it, and she turned back to her own plot.

She turned her attention to the com screen and her flag captain.

The flag captain turned to give the order.

As her flag captain, he would be her tactical deputy.

He then served for three years in the Far East as the flag captain of a cruiser.

He turned to face the flag captain, whose breeches were soaked to well above the waist.

The flag captain's voice returned Corin to the present.

White Haven's voice was cold as his eyes while his flag captain acknowledged the order.

Now his own flag captain was ignoring him.

Black Water reached out and patted his flag captain on the shoulder in a rare public display of affection.

He crossed to Manthyr and gripped the flag captain's shoulder.

Legend has it that Nelson turned to his flag captain and said: