Treason's Harbour - Characters

Characters

  • Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Surprise
  • Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer
  • Mrs Sophie Aubrey - Jack's wife
  • Mrs Diana Maturin (previously known as Diana Villiers) - Stephen's wife
  • Captain Pullings - promoted to a commander in the Royal Navy
  • Mrs Laura Fielding - a young, pretty Lieutenant's wife, spying for the French
  • Andrew Wray - Second Secretary of the Admiralty
  • Andre Lesueur - a French intelligence agent posing as a wealthy merchant on Malta
  • Giuseppe - Lesueur's assistant
  • Admiral Sir Francis Ives KB - Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
  • Admiral Harte - Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet
  • Admiral Hartley - Jack's former Admiral in the West Indies
  • Professor Ebenezer Graham - assigned from his university; an expert on Turkish affairs
  • Lieutenant Charles Fielding - a prisoner-of-war of the French
  • Captain Henry Cotton - once a midshipman with Jack and youngsters together on the Resolution
  • Mr Hairabedian - a Turkish dragoman
  • Ponto - Mrs Fielding's Illyrian mastiff

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