The Yellow Admiral - Characters

Characters

  • Jack Aubrey - Post Captain
  • 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 - Stephen and Diana's companion
  • Preserved Killick - Jack's steward
  • Barret Bonden - Jack's coxswain
  • Padeen Colman - Stephen's servant
  • William Reade - Master's mate, in command of Bellona's tender, Ringle
  • Sir Joseph Blaine - Head of Intelligence at the Admiralty
  • Mr Callaghan - Midshipman on the Bellona
  • Mr Whewell - First Lieutenant on the Bellona
  • Charlotte, Fanny and George Aubrey - Jack and Sophie's children
  • Philip Aubrey - Jack's half-brother
  • Captain Griffiths - Jack's neighbour at Woolcombe
  • Mr Cholmondeley - a wealthy friend of Diana
  • Captain Heneage Dundas - Captain of the Berenice
  • Lord Stranraer - Admiral of the Brest blockading squadron
  • Evans - Griffith's gamekeeper
  • Captain William Fanshawe - Post Captain of the Ramillies; commander of the inner squadron
  • Mr Geoghegan - Midshipman and oboist; dies from a fall from the yards
  • Mr Harding - First Lieutenant on the Bellona
  • Mr Miller - Third Lieutenant on the Bellona
  • Mr Walkinshaw - schoolmaster on the Bellona
  • Yann - former French fisherman and pilot
  • Inigo Bernard - wealthy Catalan merchant (from Barcelona); member of Spanish intelligence service
  • Mr Pratt - a private investigator
  • Mr Craddock - secretary to Admiral Stranraer
  • Captain Calvert - Captain of the Fleet
  • Garcia and two other Chileans - representatives of the Chilean independence movement

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