post-captain
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- captain
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- Royal Navy
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- Kingdom of Great Britain
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thumb|upright|1807 illustration of a post-captain
Post-captain or post captain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of captain in the Royal Navy. The term "post-captain" was descriptive only; it was never used as a title in the form "Post-Captain John Smith".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “post-captain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.