Before the final, the two British captains met to toss for lanes.
The additional British captains arriving at Tahiti accepted his claim to hegemony.
Sullivan was the last British captain to lift the World Cup.
The British and American captains were suspicious of each other from the start.
In the first year of the war British captains largely painted their ships as they saw fit.
Nonetheless the British captains were praised for their courage and tenacity in engaging a superior force.
Many of the British captains had either misunderstood or ignored the signal and were hanging back in the original line.
But this was not the sort of stuff of which British captains are made.
The Royal Navy ships were all named after British captains.
Argentina was ready for a scrap in the early 1800s but it took a couple of British captains to stir it into action.