The Wine-Dark Sea - Characters

Characters

  • Jack Aubrey - Captain (and purser) of HM Hired Vessel Surprise.
  • Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer.
  • Captain Thomas Pullings - technically the captain of the Surprise, acting as its first officer; takes command of the Franklin
  • Monsieur Dutourd - a rich French philanthropist
  • Reverend Nathaniel Martin - assistant-surgeon and Stephen's friend
  • Mr Reade - a midshipman
  • Padeen Coleman - Stephen's servant and loblolly boy
  • Killick - Jack's steward
  • Bonden - Jack's coxswain
  • Joe Plaice - able seaman
  • Mr Grainger - acting Lieutenant (formerly forecastleman and a master mariner)
  • Sam Norton - a midshipman
  • Henry Vidal - acting Second Lieutenant on the Surprise (formerly a forecastleman) and a master mariner; a Knipperdolling
  • Mr Adams - captain's clerk
  • Sarah and Emily Sweeting - Melanesian girls rescued earlier by Maturin, rated as ship's boys
  • Sam Panda - Jack's illegitimate son and a Roman Catholic Priest
  • Eduardo - Maturin's Inca Indian guide
  • Don Bernardo O'Higgins - Vicar-General in Peru
  • Pascual de Gayongos - a Catalan, wealthy merchant and revolutionary sympathiser
  • General Hurtado - a high-ranked Peruvian General
  • Heneage Dundas - Captain of the Berenice
  • Joselito - Mule belonging to Don Bernardo O'Higgins and loaned to Stephen

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