Meanings of post captain in English

Stupidly, he remembered what a senior post captain had once told him.

It will be quite time enough for that when you are a post captain.

He's a post captain, after all, and not married, is he? He wagged a finger.

Midshipman to post captain, it made no difference.

The boy turned out well, entered the navy, and was a post captain when he died.

Accordingly our navigator, on the 9th of August, was raised to the rank of a post captain.

Fit for a post captain, isn't it?

Mr. Cook, on this occasion, from a certain consciousness of his own merit, wished to have been appointed a post captain.

A commander has the same pay as a post captain, and his authority is the same when he is in actual employment.

He saw that the other officer had thrown back his cloak to display the epaulettes of a post captain, like his own.

For this gallant and romantic achievement, Lieutenant Decatur was promoted to the rank of post captain, there being at that time no intermediate grade.

I have just written to a friend of mine, a post captain in his majesty's service, asking him to receive you as a midshipman.

He was certain to be posted captain soon, and 'tis like him truly.

"I'd recommend you not to play with post captains," said Captain Bridgeman, "or you may get worse than you give.