Characters
- Campbell "Cam" Renton, a sixteen-year-old apprentice seaman
- "Rusty" Roberts, his fellow apprentice and bunkmate
- Captain Carey, captain of the Langdale, a cargo ship with a complement of thirty-eight crew members
- Andy, chief mate of the Langdale
- "Happy" Hartland, the cheerful Cornish second mate
- The third mate
- The bosun
- "Chippy" Rasmussan, a gentle Scandinavian giant, the ship's carpenter
- The ship's cook, a talented banjo player
- "Calamity" Calston, an able seaman with a penchant for predicting disaster at every turn
- "Bandy" Boscombe, an able seaman
- "Taffy", a Welsh sailor
- The commandant of the fort and its soldiers at Boca de Sol
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