His flagship passed within musket-shot of one side of the royal flagship and discharged its artillery.
Not less necessary do I consider it that we should always have galleys in Terrenate; for lack of them our reënforcements this year were so hindered, and the flagship was lost.
The flagship mounted more than forty pieces, the almiranta more than thirty, the third galleon an equal number, and the fourth as many as twenty.
At first it was thought on board the flagship that the white streak was caused by a torpedo, but later reports from other ships warranted the conclusion that it was the wake of the submarine itself.
The submarine sighted by the flagship immediately engaged the attention of destroyer B.
How this lady interfered to prevent an important military manoeuvre, the object of which was the destruction of the Federal flagship by a torpedo, and incidentally the probable death of Captain Sempland.
Did she think to prevent the loss of the flagship of the Federal fleet by detaining him?
Incidentally he learned, with some additional satisfaction, that Admiral Vernon was to be relieved of his command on account of illness and was going North with his flagship in a few days.
Of course, all the others are blockaded, too, but General Beauregard thinks that if we can torpedo the flagship the others will hurry to her assistance and the blockade-runners can get out through the Swash Channel.
The Spanish flagshipattempted to leave the line and go out to engage the Olympia at close range, but at once the entire battery of the Olympia was concentrated on her, and she retreated to her former place.
The order of the column was this: The flagship Hartford, with the gunboat Albatross.
After service in the Colorado, the flagship of the European squadron, he was detailed as an instructor at the Naval Academy, where he spent two years.
Soon after eleven o'clock the American fleet returned to the attack, and at this time the Spaniard's flagship and most of his other vessels were in flames.
Then the ram was discovered coming up stream, and Captain Smith signaled to the flagship for permission to attack her with the Mississippi.
Two mines were exploded ahead of the American flagship as it advanced, but produced no damage.
The next year Captain Dewey was in command of the Pensacola, flagship of the European squadron; and in 1889 he was promoted to the rank of commodore and made chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting at Washington.
The great excitement thus produced on board the flagship did not for a moment interfere with the discipline.
Cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's Flagship The battle of Manila Admiral Dewey on the bridge of the Olympia Medal presented by Congress Sword presented by Congress Shield presented to the Olympia Dewey Triumphal Arch, New York Charles R.
In the latitude of Bermuda both suffered from a violent gale, but the French most; the flagship Languedoc losing her main and mizzen topmasts.
Both lost their main and mizzen masts in the course of the day, and the foretopmast of the flagship also fell.
None of the centre division succeeded in joining the flagship at once.
The flagship Formidable was using both broadsides as she broke through the enemy's order.
On the 18th of August, sixty-seven days from Plymouth, the flagship arrived off the south coast of Long Island, ninety miles east of New York, without one of the fleet in company.
It was a matter of tradition for flagship to seek flagship, just as it was to signal a general chase, and to bear down together, each ship for its opposite, well extended with the enemy.
Lord Colville's fleet being in the harbour at the time, "each ship fired a Royal Salute, beginning with his Lordship's flagship the Northumberland.
The crews were set about this trifling duty or that, and we waited until sunset for a wind, when the prizes were sailed down to where the flagship lay close alongside the Barclay and the Montezuma.
I looked eagerly toward the position that Commodore Schley's flagship usually occupied on the western side of the harbor entrance, but could see nothing that even suggested the Brooklyn's familiar outline.
On my visit to the flagship New York I was accompanied by Mr. Chamberlain, one of the war correspondents of the Chicago "Record.
After breakfast I went off in a boat to the flagship New York, called upon Admiral Sampson, and obtained from him a brief account of all that had happened off that coast since the 1st of May.
The flagshipmoved straight in toward the point where the first disaster occurred.
And swept along by their enthusiasm the Kaiser had at last consented to embark on his flagship at Kiel, and now he was following the other fleets on their great mission to the Western Continent.
The car in which Mr. Edison travelled was, of course, the flagship of the squadron, and I had the good fortune to be included among its inmates.
The flagship then alone dropped slowly toward the place on the asteroid where the prostrate Martians were.
Then it was only necessary to wait for the hour when the Lake of the Sun would be upon the meridian of Mars in order to be certain what the true direction of the latter from the flagship was.
The excitement on the flagship and among the other members of the squadron was immense.
There was more than one man in the flagship who recognized them well, and who shuddered at the recognition, instinctively recalling the recent terrible experience of the earth.
But presently someone in the flagship recalled us to a more accurate sense of our situation in space by exclaiming: "Why, there is the earth!
As the flagship was now overcrowded by the addition of so many men to its crew, Mr. Edison had them distributed among the other cars.
In accordance with my request, Mr. Edison had the flagship moored in the interior of the great ruined watch tower that I have described.
The flagship was driven into the smoke cloud so deeply that for a minute we were again enveloped in night.
Mr. Edison thought that it would be possible to repair the car itself, and for that purpose he had it attached to the flagship in order that it might be carried on as far as the moon.
We in the flagship had all learned to speak her language with more or less ease, but it was deemed best that the Heidelberg Professor, assisted by one of his colleagues, should act as interpreter.
The doings of the flagship had been closely watched throughout the squadron.
The first of these, Captain John Hunter, had served on the flagship Queen Charlotte.
The flagship bore down upon us, and as she swung gracefully to and touched our side a dozen officers sprang upon our decks.
No vessel escaped with less than twenty wounds, while theflagship was hit fifty-nine times.
Not a mast that would bear canvas was left standing in the British fleet; those of the flagship were splintered like bundles of matches, and the sails torn to rags.
From the mainmast of the flagship "Minnesota" waved the signal-flags, changing constantly as different orders were sent to the commanders of the other warships.
Accordingly, on March 15, the whiz of a rifled shell from the flagship "Benton" announced to the Confederates that the North wanted the Mississippi opened for travel.
Then they saw a steamer crowded with men rushing toward the flagship without firing a shot, and evidently intending to board.
The flagship "Hartford" was met by a tug which pushed a huge burning fire-raft against her sides.
With the approach of day came the signal from the flagship to prepare for action.
A number of these, headed by the flagship "New York," belonged to the new navy of the United States.
In the mizzen-top of the flagship was stationed a cool old river pilot, who had guided many a huge river steamer, freighted with precious lives, through the mazy channels of the Mississippi.
Then the flagship opened fire, and then I followed with two hours of cannonading which I do not believe has ever been equaled in naval warfare.
Around the flagshipwere clustered the vessels of the Gulf squadron.
At daybreak on Sunday, November 3d, the pilot of the flagship announced land.
These, however, fell back without showing fight The same day the gunboat Zafir, the flagship of Captain Keppel, sprang a leak and sank within a few moments.
Transferred at Durban to the flagship of Commodore Richards, the Boadicea, and thence, at Simons Bay to H.
On the 17th December, Lord Elgin embarked upon the Furious, the Audacieuse being the flagship of the French admiral, and the allied fleets assembled at Blenheim beach, below Canton.
As we are on the point of letting go our anchor, the distant boom of cannon is heard, and the flagship orders us to repair to the seat of danger with all speed.
Another night passes, and there are no indications of runners having tried to escape us; but at sunrise we see, far to the south, a schooner, and soon the flagship signals that a prize has been taken by one of our fleet.
The fog lifts slightly, and as the flagshipadvances to join in the fight, we see that the Daylight is moving back to reload and let her pass in, which she does, entering the circle of the rebel fire, between us and them.
In very few minutes the Oquendo followed the flagship ashore, both of them looking like great blazing torches.
On the Lawrence and the two schooners there were only seven long guns against thirty-six which were pelting Perry's flagship from the British fleet.
She was Commodore Preble's flagship in the war with the Moorish pirates.
Farragut chose the sloop-of-war Hartford for his flagship and sailed merrily away for the mighty river.
Oh, what a dreadful time there was on Perry's flagship during those sad two hours.
First of all was the flagship Olympia, with Dewey standing on its bridge.
The first to yield was the Maria Teresa, the flagship of the admiral.
When it was all settled and the treaties were exchanged, Commodore Perry gave an elegant dinner on his flagship to the Japanese princes and officials.
In the flagship was the father prior of Cuyo, who was so badly wounded by our balls that he died two hours after the defeat.
It swept almost all the men from the bailio, and a captive who was aboard that flagship said that this shot killed twenty men.
In the year 608, two ships sailed for Acapulco, under command of Juan Tello de Aguirre, and the flagship was wrecked in the Embocadero of Capul, one hundred leguas from Manila.
The battle was fought, and the flagship of Olanda was sunk, and two galleons burned, while the almiranta, with two others, took to flight.
Father Juan de Barrios and I embarked in the flagship with his Lordship, and Sargento-mayor Don Marcos Zapata, whom he brought for a companion, and to sit at his table.
Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar, launched in 1765, and still used as the flagship in Portsmouth Harbour.
Saunders took Wolfe's army and the main body of his own fleet up the great river in June: a hundred and forty-one vessels, all told, from the flagship Neptune of ninety guns down to the smallest craft that carried supplies.
Illustration: The Santa Maria, flagshipof Christopher Columbus when he discovered America in 1492.
Within an hour the Spanish flagship and another vessel had been sunk, a third was on fire, and every English deck was clear of Spanish boarding parties.
The Spaniards found their own hostages all safe and sound aboard the flagship that Hawkins had abandoned at the King's Island.
The Santa Maria, flagship of Christopher Columbus when he discovered America in 1492.
La Clue, whose fleet was the smaller, seeing no chance of either victory or escape, chose shipwreck rather than surrender, and ran his flagship straight on the rocks, with every stitch of canvas drawing full and his flag kept flying.
The flagship Golden Hind was of only a hundred tons.
Ural" came running up between the lines, and semaphored to the flagship that four ships in line ahead were passing across the rear of the fleet, but could not be clearly made out in the mist.
But meanwhile Antony's galley had run alongside of the royal flagship of the Egyptian fleet, and he had been welcomed on board by Cleopatra.
The furthest out, the flagship of the Knights of Malta, was attacked by seven of the enemy's vessels.
Manning all his oars, he drove the bow of his flagship deep into the stern of Ali's ship, swept her decks with a volley of musketry, and sent a storming-party on to her poop.
Two other ships joined the flagship in attacking her, all believing she was still Persano's flagship.
The sun was going down when the French flagship surrendered.
At a council of war held on board De Ruyter's flagship on the evening of the 24th it was decided to accept battle next day, even if the Dutch had to fight to leeward.
His orders were to mark with his flagship the extreme right of the line of battle so that the rest of his division could form on this point.
The ship arrived at her base during the afternoon, and Captain Spencer went on board the flagship to report his arrival.
Have sunk hostile submarine,' was the signal made to the flagship a few minutes later.
Steam for full speed had been raised, and the ships were ready to move at an instant's notice; while Captain Spencer had been on board the flagship during the afternoon, and was away for a very long time.
The water was washing knee-deep over their decks as they rolled, but it was not until they were nearly abeam of the flagship that a ball of red fire shot up into the air from each of them.
The captain turned on his heel and dictated a signal informing the flagship of what had occurred.
The ship's steward's assistant from the flagship was evidently not coming.
The flagship did not deign to answer, but her signalmen tittered; the 'alleged' tickled them.
They were a splendid lot of officers on board the flagship H.
Before getting to our proper position, a signal from the flagship ordered us to lie down on the beach.
Captain Breeze and Lieutenants Cushing, Preston, and Porter, from the flagship Malvern, had command of the sailors.
The admiral of the South Atlantic station made her the flagship of the fleet.
The flagship was already abreast of El Casino, the three remaining ships, the two torpedo-boats and one wretched transport, following her.
The Captain went over to the insurgent flagship that afternoon to see about some complaint which our Consul at Los Angelos had made, and I slipped a note for Gerald into his coxswain's hands, hoping it would get to him.
When the first sign of a flutter comes from the flagship that the pennants are coming down the hoarse yell of "Haul down!
That man didn't have to wait long, for soon there was sent into the wardroom of every ship a message signalled from the flagship which said that after a brief stay on the Pacific Coast the fleet would come home by way of Suez.
On a flagship the Admiral may form a club all by himself, or he may enlarge the membership, as Admiral Evans does, by having his staff officers join his mess.
I am happy to inform you that your son and the son of the captain of your noble flagship have this day declared their allegiance as my loyal subjects.
It is not the time to be chummy when every man on the bridge is watching signals from a flagship and hurrying things so as not to be the last to send up the proper pennant or to haul it down.
When she goes back toward the flagship, or the flagship eases off a bit, I'll go back.
The Grau passed out to sea and orders were signalled from the flagship to get under way.
Just before 11 o'clock the signal had been made from the flagship to prepare to get under way.
Once or twice, perhaps because the looks of the water or the lead may have given warning, the flagship made short turns.
The menus of every ship have to be forwarded to the flagship every week so that the Admiral may observe whether the men have had the proper kind of food.
There flashes from the flagship a row of vertical red lights, four of them.
Perhaps the engines lost a revolution or two, or the steam slowed off just a bit and the officer of the deck wondered why he was unable to keep his position of 1,200 yards from the flagship exactly, but what did it matter?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flagship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
