flotilla leader

One of the Zuiho class was polished off by cruiser gunfire, and so was a destroyer flotilla leader.

Down went the Commandant Teste, down the flotilla leader Mogador and another destroyer.

Then, in answer to British claims of disastrous raids on Messina, Palermo and Naples, the Italian High Command announced some successes of its own: two British merchantmen shot out of a convoy in the Mediterranean, the Free French submarine Narval sunk by a torpedo boat, a Greek freighter and the British flotilla leader Shakespeare* torpedoed in the Atlantic, a British battleship on convoy duty struck by dive bombers in the eastern Mediterranean.

Similar equipment is used on the French Navy's flotilla leader Verdun, the first warship ever to attain a speed of 40 knots.

As the Prime Minister leaned busily over some notes, the First Lord announced that the destroyers bought from the U. S. would be given names of towns which lie in both Britain and the U. S., that the first flotilla would be given the initial C, and that the flotilla leader would be called Churchill.