Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Commodore and later on HMS Surprise
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer
- Sophie Aubrey - Jack's wife
- Diana Maturin - Stephen's wife
- Brigid Maturin - Stephen's daughter
- Mrs Clarissa Oakes - governess to Brigid Maturin
- Mrs. Williams - Sophie's mother and Jack's mother-in-law
- Barrett Bonden - Aubrey's Coxswain
- Preserved Killick - Aubrey's steward
- Padeen Colman - Stephen's Irish servant
- Mr Harding - First Lieutenant on the Surprise
- William Reade - Master's mate
- Mr Woodbine - Master on the Surprise
- Mrs. Poll Skeeping - loblolly boy on the Surprise
- Mrs Cheal- bosun wife's sister
- Admiral Keith - Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet; replaced by Admiral Lord Barmouth
- Queenie Keith - the Admiral's wife and Jack's childhood friend
- Dr Glover - surgeon on Pomone
- Lieutenant Edwards and John Arrowsmith - two elderly Lieutenants retired in Gibraltar
- Mr William Kent - Whitehall official
- Mr Dee - authority on eastern matters, particularly finance
- Dr Amos Jacob - assistant surgeon on the Surprise; a Spanish Jew, speaking Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic and Turkish; a Cainite
- Admiral Fanshawe - Port Admiral of Mahon
- James Wright - Engineer and Member of the Royal Society
- Mr Whewell - Third Lieutenant on the Surprise
- John Daniel - Master's Mate on the Surprise
- Captain Hobden - Marine Captain on the Surprise
- Kevin and Mona Fitzpatrick - two young Irish slaves
- Captain Heneage Dundas
- Sir Peter and Lady Clifford - British consul at Algiers
- Isobel Carrington - the new Lady Barmouth and Jack Aubrey's cousin
- Captain Christy-Palliere - Captain of the Royalist Caroline
- Richard - Caroline's secretary
- Captain Delalande - Captain of the Cerbere
- Omar Pasha, a Dey
- Vizier
- Murad Reis, a corsair xebec captain
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