lieutenant-commander

plural lieutenant-commanders

1. alternativeAlternative form of lieutenant commander.

   He entered the United States Navy in 1841, and stood 33 in the list of Lieutenant-Commanders.

   1863 June 27, “Our New-Orleans Correspondence. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2018

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   He suddenly fulfilled us. He was the expected officer, a junior Lieutenant-Commander. That must have been how he slipped so unchallenged, even fêted, past my father’s defences – who thought it was himself the American visited, the American with the matinee idol’s line moustache, like Errol Flynn’s.

   1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 35

   He rose from ensign to lieutenant-commander and by the war’s end, he captained his own ship.

   2015 October 5, Barbara Diamond, “Our Laguna: VFW fundraiser honors Harry Lawrence, veterans”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2021