Meanings of unfortunate captain in English

The unfortunate captain was subsequently tried by court-martial for cowardice and treachery.

The unfortunate captain plunged, disappeared, and they thought him already in another world.

The unfortunate captain Tuckey relates,* (* Expedition to explore the river Zahir, 1818.)

Now, I mean not to speak lightly of any thing immediately connected with the unfortunate captain.

Here the pathetic record ended abruptly and of the fate of the unfortunate captain the boys had of course no inkling.

Heine adds: I fully understand the passion with which the unfortunate captain once exclaimed: 'Oh if I should EVER again see Amsterdam!

We agreed, therefore, that early next morning we would all go and pay the last respects to the late unfortunate captain of the Active.

Amazed beyond measure, and deeply chagrined, the unfortunate captain of the man-of-war turned to Gascoyne, who still sat quietly on the taffrail smoking his cigar.

The unfortunate Captain Farwell underwent three hours of torture, at the hands of the women and children.

It remains a lasting monument of the enterprising and unfortunate Captain Cook, who was murdered by the natives of this island.

What still greater fatality had urged the unfortunate Captain Hull, generally so wise, to risk everything in order to complete his cargo?

"Why didn't you cut away her masts?" he said to the unfortunate captain later on.

When he got behind the wheel, he added for good measure, "And that includes the suicide of the unfortunate Captain Fordham."

Fort Wellington, in Raffles Bay, founded in 1826, fared no better, although controlled during its last year by the gifted and unfortunate Captain Barker.

"The unfortunate Captain Escobar," Rios told her equably, "has been removed to another part of the house.

"Always that unfortunate captain!"