His crew found him more easy-going than the irascible and bullying Collard.

English translation: Captain Collard was the previous commander of "Clive".

02:33 Jun 4, 2014
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Ships, Sailing, Maritime / History of Navy (Battle Ship)
English term or phrase: His crew found him more easy-going than the irascible and bullying Collard.
This sentence comes next the sentence that Mr. X was assumed the captain of a battle ship.
In this context, does "Collard" mean the name of the person, the ship's former captain, or a famous person, or anythig else?
Please tell me.
Chiho Hashimoto
Selected answer:Captain Collard was the previous commander of "Clive".
Explanation:
I found this information in Google Books, in the book your quotation is from (page 64).

Page 57: "Captain B.St G. Collard, later of Royal Oak's bandmaster controversy in 1928, took over command of 'Clive'."
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4 +6Captain Collard was the previous commander of "Clive".
Martin Riordan
4 -1Collard had changed for the better
acetran


  

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his crew found him more easy-going than the irascible and bullying collard.
Captain Collard was the previous commander of "Clive".


Explanation:
I found this information in Google Books, in the book your quotation is from (page 64).

Page 57: "Captain B.St G. Collard, later of Royal Oak's bandmaster controversy in 1928, took over command of 'Clive'."

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 09:55
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Thank you for your answer.
I could solve my question.

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
his crew found him more easy-going than the irascible and bullying collard.
Collard had changed for the better


Explanation:
He was earlier irascible and like a bully. But, now had changed for the better.
He was more easy going now.



acetran
Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi, Native in EnglishEnglish

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disagree  Jack Doughty: "His/him" refer to the new captain. Collard was the previous captain.
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