Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.

The ship's captain, Joseph Pierpont, published his experience in several American newspapers the following year giving an accurate position of Johnston and Sand Island along with part of the reef.

The ship's captain placed him in a boarding house run by Quaker women.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

The eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.

* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

By 1516, he was again at sea as a ship's captain in the Ottoman fleet.

She was the only child of Annie Tapley ( née Ziegler ) and Clinton Jones, a factory foreman who had been a ship's captain.

; Gul: Gul is an officer rank title which is approximately equivalent to a ship's captain.

Chakotay was captain of the Val Jean raider ( the ship's name appeared on a readout screen in the episode " Repression ").

The series ' final episode, " These Are the Voyages ...", reveals that Sato remains Archer's communications officer throughout his tenure as captain, and was considering resuming her teaching career in Brazil following the ship's decommissioning.

His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship's captain and sometime planter.

The ship was chartered by the Canterbury Association, with Captain William Dale serving as the ship's captain.

However he handed the bomb to the ship's captain.

** Edward J. Smith, English ship's captain ( b. 1850 ).

* March 12 – Richard Roberts, ship's captain perished while in command of the SS President ( famous quote: I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub ) ( b. 1803 )

** Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer ( d. 1621 )

The captain of every ship sailing through the strait had to state the value of ship's cargo.

The king had the right to buy the cargo for the price the ship's captain stated.

Both the captain and the quartermaster were elected by the crew ; they, in turn, appointed the other ship's officers.

In 1972, Nielsen appeared as the ship's captain in the all-star disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure.

Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal in which Crusoe helps the captain and the loyal sailors retake the ship and leave the worst mutineers on the island.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

* Marina Sirtis as ship's counselor Commander Deanna Troi

The senior staff of Voyager include Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), who commands the ship ; Commander ( field commission ) Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), her first officer, who joined from the Maquis ; Lt. Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) ( later rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander ), the Security / Tactical officer ; Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ), the Operations Officer ; Lt JG ( junior grade ) ( field commission ) B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), Chief Engineer ; Lt. JG ( falling to ensign as a result of demotion but later rising in rank to full lieutenant ) Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), Helm Officer ; as well as several noncommissioned personnel, the Emergency Medical Hologram ( Robert Picardo ) as the Chief Medical Officer, Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) as the ship's cook and later Voyager's ambassador, Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) as the EMH's Medical Assistant, and Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), who plays several roles, generally in Astrometrics or Engineering.

With the ship's course unable to be changed and Starfleet now intrigued by what Archer had become aware of, Forrest was ordered to investigate, he also had Archer punished in the Agony Booth for a then record of ten hours, giving the Commander only one hour to clean up and get ready for a staff meeting after his release.

* In the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World a trepanation is performed on a crew member, who had suffered a severe depressed fracture of the skull, by the ship's doctor, with the hole covered by using a coin that had been hammered into shape by the ship's blacksmith.

Miller was spotted by Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, who ordered the powerfully built sailor to accompany him to the bridge to assist with moving the ship's Captain Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel.

On the Enterprise, First Officer Riker and the staff struggle to understand the alien's language and Riker has Commander Data work with ship's counselor Troi in hopes of translating it.

Indeed, during the first year of the Defiants commission at the station, she also serves as the ship's first officer, a situation that only alters upon the arrival of Lt Commander Worf, who assumes the role as the next most senior Starfleet officer of command grade.

Commander Riker on the Enterprise has decided to track down the widow of destroyed ship's captain.

Commander Geordi La Forge tells Picard and Rozhenko that the Holodeck program may not run that long as the Holodeck and several of the ship's other systems were adversely effected by exposure to Plasmonic wave radiation generated by the atmospheric dissipation.

The Commanding Officer of the establishment or unit that owns the mess is permitted access to all his messes ; thus a ship's captain has access to his vessel's Chiefs ' and Petty Officers ' Mess, the Commanding Officer of a regiment may enter any of his regimental messes, and the Base Commander of a Canadian Forces Base is welcome in any of his base's messes.

* Commander Deanna Troi ( Ship's Counselor ) Commander Troi was the ship's Counselor from its launch in 2372, until the end of Star Trek: Nemesis, when she departed with her new husband, Captain Riker, for the Titan.

* Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge ( Chief Engineer ) Chief Engineer from the ship's acceptance into Starfleet service.

Duuz is the ship's Platoon Commander.

Also aboard the ship are Ensign Ralston ( James MacArthur ), an inexperienced young officer constantly being criticized by his captain for small errors, and Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, USNR ( Martin Balsam ), the ship's new doctor who is a reservist recently recalled to active duty.

The Marine battalion landed unopposed on 10 June with five of its six companies, leaving the artillery company aboard to unload the ship, as Commander Reiter, the captain of the Panther, had refused to authorize the use of ship's personnel for unloading duties.

* First lieutenant: In the Royal Navy, the senior lieutenant on board ; responsible to the Commander for the domestic affairs of the ship's company.

The ship's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Walter Smith, played the engineering officer.

Commander John Sheridan, the ship's first officer, survived the attack and took command of the Lexington.

In the beginning of the 2002 feature film Star Trek Nemesis, Commander William Riker, who has served as First Officer under Captain Jean-Luc Picard for fifteen years aboard two different starships named Enterprise, marries his longtime on-again, off-again love, ship's counselor, Commander Deanna Troi.