Horatio Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, originally the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester, and later the subject of films and television programs.

Hornblower's shipmates

A list of all the Royal Naval sea-going characters in the Hornblower novels

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• Bailey — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Benskin — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Brown — Hornblower's faithful and burly coxswain, and later domestic servant
• Buckland — first lieutenant, HMS Renown
• William Bush — Hornblower's "closest friend" and loyal subordinate. Briefly his superior officer in Lieutenant Hornblower, but happy for Hornblower (and more happily for Bush) to be promoted over him. Hornblower's second-in-command in HMS Hotspur, HMS Lydia, and HMS Sutherland and his flag-captain in HMS Nonsuch.
• Carlin — second lieutenant, HMS Nonsuch
• Chump the Negro — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia, missing in action
• Clay — midshipman HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Clifton, James — boatswain's mate, HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Crystal — sailing master of HMS Lydia
• Dawson — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia, missing in action
• Doughty — captain's steward, HMS Hotspur, deserted
• Galbraith, Donald Scott — third lieutenant, HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Gerard — second lieutenant, HMS Lydia, HMS Sutherland, captured
• Gerard II — midshipman, HMS Nonsuch, nephew of Lieutenant Gerard
• Gray — master's mate, HMS Lydia, HMS Sutherland
• Grimes — captain's steward, HMS Hotspur, listed killed in action, actually committed suicide
• Hall — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Hankey — surgeon in HMS Lydia, dies before the start of The Happy Return
• Harper — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia, missing in action
• Harrison — boatswain on board HMS Lydia
• Holroyd — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Hooker — midshipman on board HMS Lydia
• Howell — carpenter, HMS Lydia
• Hudson — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Hufnell — purser, HMS Hotspur
• Hurst — first lieutenant, HMS Nonsuch
• Jenkins — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Jones, John (the seventh) — first lieutenant, HMS Atropos
• Knyvett — midshipman, HMS Lydia
• Laurie — purser's steward/loblolly boy (sick berth attendant), HMS Lydia
• MacEvoy — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Marsh — gunner, HMS Lydia
• Montgomery — second lieutenant, HMS Nonsuch
• Mound — lieutenant, commanding bomb ketch Harvey, killed in action
• North — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia, missing in action
• Polwheal — Captain's steward, HMS Lydia
• Poole — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Price — master-at-arms, HMS Sutherland
• Prince — midshipman, HMS Atropos
• Prowse — sailing master, HMS Hotspur
• Owen — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Rayner — fourth lieutenant, HMS Lydia
• Roberts — second lieutenant, HMS Renown, killed in action
• Savage, Howard — midshipman on board HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Simmonds, Samuel — Lieutenant, Royal Marines, HMS Lydia
• Smiley — midshipman, HMS Atropos
• Smith — fourth lieutenant, HMS Renown, killed in action
• Somers — midshipman, HMS Nonsuch
• Sullivan — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia, fiddler
• Summers, John — master's mate, HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Thompson — captain of the forecastle, HMS Sutherland
• Tooms — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Turner — sailing master, HMS Atropos
• Vincent, Henry — boatswain's mate, HMS Lydia, killed in action
• Vickery — commander, HMS Lotus
• Wellard — midshipman, HMS Renown, later drowned
• Whipple — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Wilcox — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Williams — ordinary seaman, HMS Lydia
• Wise — boatswain, HMS Hotspur
• Wood — purser, HMS Lydia

Real Royal Naval officers who appear in the novels

• Rear Admiral Sir James Saumarez, The Happy Return
• Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Hornblower and the Hotspur
• Admiral John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Lord Hornblower, Atropos
• Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, Atropos
• Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Flying Colours