Lord Ramage
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Nicholas, Lord Ramage (born 1775) was the fictional character
Fictional character
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 at the centre of a series of sea novels written by Dudley Pope
Dudley Pope
Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick...

. Ramage was an officer in the British Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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 during the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

.

Early life

This section contains information on Ramage's life before the commencement of the Lord Ramage Novels. For information after this period, see the respective summaries of the books.

Nicholas Ramage was born in 1775 at Blazey Hall in Cornwall
Cornwall
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, the eldest son of the Earl of Blazey. Nicholas' father was a Vice-Admiral who was court martialled (some sympathetic colleagues felt unjustly so) and Nicholas is burdened by this legacy. Ramage's mother was fond of travelling and took Ramage to Tuscany to live in 1777, when his father departed to assume naval command in North America. They returned to England for his father's court martial in 1782 and because of the notoriety surrounding his father's court martial returned to Tuscany in 1783 where Ramage remained until he joined the navy in 1788 at age 13. Despite the his father's disgrace, Ramage retained significant patrons within the navy enabling him to be promoted to lieutenant at age 20, the earliest age possible.

Commands

Ship Rate Guns Main armament
Book
Notional Year End of commission Fictional?
HMS Sibella Frigate
Frigate
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28 12pdr guns, carronades Ramage
Ramage (novel)
Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It isset during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars.-Plot summary:...

1796 Sunk Yes
Kathleen Cutter 10 10*6pdr carronades Ramage
Ramage (novel)
Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It isset during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars.-Plot summary:...

1796 Sunk Yes
Triton Brig
Brig
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10 10*12pdr carronades Ramage and the Freebooters
Ramage and the Freebooters
Ramage and the Freebooters, is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the third of the Ramage novels, following on from Ramage and the Drumbeat....

1797 Wrecked Yes
HMS Juno Frigate
Frigate
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32 26*12pdr guns, 6*6pdr guns Ramage's Diamond 1801 Yes
HMS Calypso Frigate
Frigate
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36 36*12pdr guns, 6*12pdr carronades Ramage's Mutiny 1801 Yes
HMS Dido Ship of the line
Ship of the line
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74 28*32pdr, 30*24pdr, 16*12pdr guns, 8*12pdr carronades Ramage and the Dido 1807 Yes

Novels Featured in

  • Ramage
    Ramage (novel)
    Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It isset during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars.-Plot summary:...

    (1965)
  • Ramage and the Drumbeat
    Ramage and the Drumbeat
    Ramage and the Drumbeat, also published as Drumbeat is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during 1796 and 1797 amongst the naval warfare of the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the second of the Ramage novels, following on from Ramage. During the book, Ramage becomes an integral part of...

    (aka Drumbeat) (1968)
  • Ramage and the Freebooters (aka The Triton Brig) (1969)
  • Governor Ramage RN (1973)
  • Ramage's Prize (1974)
  • Ramage and the Guillotine (1975)
  • Ramage's Diamond (1976) HMS Diamond Rock
    Diamond Rock
    Diamond Rock is a 175 meter high basalt island located south of Fort-de-France, the main port of the Caribbean island of Martinique. The uninhabited island is about three kilometers from Pointe Diamant. The island gets its name from the reflections that its sides cast at certain hours of the day,...

  • Ramage's Mutiny (1977)
  • Ramage and the Rebels (1978)
  • The Ramage Touch (1979)
  • Ramage's Signal (1980)
  • Ramage and the Renegades (1981)
  • Ramage's Devil (1982)
  • Ramage's Trial (1984)
  • Ramage's Challenge (1985)
  • Ramage at Trafalgar (1986)
  • Ramage and the Saracens (1988)
  • Ramage and the Dido (1989)
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