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  • And then was there a Mrs Green, whose husband was first-lieutenant on board a man-of-war on the West Indian Station.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • It was time to give orders to Clorinda's first-lieutenant.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • Spendlove came first; after him Gerard was sent for, and then Sefton, the first-lieutenant.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • The captain, accordingly, ordered his first-lieutenant to board and take possession of the captured vessel; but, owing to the tremendous sea which was then running, he found himself unable, though a very brave man, to approach sufficiently near, with the boat, to get on board the prize, and had the extreme mortification of being obliged to go back without effecting his purpose.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • This, though no real disgrace to the first-lieutenant, was certainly a very high honour to such a strippling as the second; who owed his success, on the present occasion, as he did at many future periods, to the practical knowledge of seamanship which he had always, from his first entering on the service, been sagaciously solicitous to acquire.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • Mr. Pascoe, first-lieutenant of the Victory, received a very severe wound, while conversing with his lordship; and John Scott, Esq. his lordship's secretary, was shot through the head, by a musket-ball, at his side,

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

  • His first-lieutenant will, I have no doubt, be broke.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • The pleasing manners of Lieutenant Nelson, added to his manifest spirit and talents, so perfectly gained the esteem of the commander in chief, as well as of his amiable and excellent lady, to whom he had been kindly introduced on shore, that he was promoted, in the course of a very few months, by the regular gradations, to be first-lieutenant, and even enabled to conclude his services in that rank.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • I have to regret the loss of Captain Westcott, of the Majestic, who was killed early in the action; but the ship was continued to be so well fought by her first-lieutenant, Mr. Cuthbert, that I have given him an order to command her till your lordship's pleasure is known.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • The first man who jumped into the enemy's mizen chains was Captain Berry, late my first-lieutenant -- Captain Miller was in the act of going, also, but I directed him to remain -- he was supported by our spritsail yard, which hooked in the mizen rigging.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

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