Characters in The Commodore
- Jack Aubrey – Appointed Commodore
- Stephen Maturin – Surgeon of the Bellona, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer
- Heneage Dundas – Captain of HMS Berenice
- Preserved Killick – Aubrey's steward
- Barret Bonden – Jack's coxwain
- Padeen Colman – Stephen's Irish servant
- Sarah and Emily Sweeting – Melanesian girls rescued earlier by Maturin, rated as ships boys
- Awkward Davies – Able seaman
- Joe Plaice – Able seaman
- Fellowes – Post-Captain of the Thunderer
- William Smith and Alexander Macaulay – Assistant surgeons on Bellona
- Mr Wetherby – Youngster on Bellona
- Sophie Aubrey – Jack's wife
- Mrs Williams – Sophie's mother
- Diana Maturin – Stephen's wife
- Clarissa Oakes
- Brigid Maturin – Stephen's daughter
- Sir Joseph Blaine – Head of Intelligence at the Admiralty
- Mnanson – Jack's butler at Woolcombe
- Mr Gray – First Lieutenant on the Bellona
- Mr Whewell – Acting first Lieutenant on the Bellona
- John Square – A Krooman who assists Stephen in Freetown
- Houmouzios – Greek money lender
- Mrs Charlotte Wood – Eminent naturalist
- Squadron leaders
- Captain Tom Pullings – Bellona
- Captain William Duff – Stately
- Captain Howard – Aurora
- Captain Thomas – Thames (nicknamed the Purple Emperor)
- Captain Fitton – Nimble
- Captain Smith – Camilla
- William Reade – Ringle
- Dick Richardson – Laurel
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