Tyger

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

*indicates fictitious character

*Sir Thomas Kydd, captain of HMS Tyger

*Nicholas Renzi, Lord Farndon, friend and former confidential secretary

TYGER, SHIP’S COMPANY

*Borden, master’s mate

*Bowden, replacement second lieutenant

*Bray, replacement first lieutenant

*Brice, replacement third lieutenant

*Clinton, Royal Marines captain

*Darby, gunner

*Dawes, boatswain

*Dawkins, able seaman

*Digby, quartermaster’s mate

*Doud, seaman

*Flynn, steward

*Gordon, carpenter’s mate

*Haffner, able seaman

*Halgren, captain’s coxswain

*Harman, purser

*Herne, replacement boatswain

*Hollis, first lieutenant

*Jemmy, ship’s boy

*Joyce, replacement master

*Le Breton, sailing master

*Legge, carpenter

*Maynard, master’s mate

*Nowell, third lieutenant

*Oxley, surgeon

*Paddon, second lieutenant

*Payne, lieutenant of Marines

*Pinto, seaman

*Pollard, bosun’s mate

*Smyth, master’s mate

*Stirk, gunner’s mate

*Tully, master-at-arms

OTHERS

Adams, master shipbuilder of Beaulieu

*Bazely, captain, Fenella

Bellingham, British prisoner in Archangel

Bennigsen, Count, commander of coalition forces in East Prussia

Blucher, Generalleutnant, aide to King Friedrich

*Blunt, Muscovy Company

Bourne, secretary of the Treasury during Pitt’s office

Browne, former master attendant at Cape of Good Hope

*Cecilia, nee Kydd, Lady Farndon

Collingwood, admiral, commander-in-chief Mediterranean

Davout, French general

Dundas, first lord of the Admiralty

*Engelhardt, subaltern friend of Gursten

Essington, rear admiral

*Felkins, London solicitor

*Gursten, Flugelleutnant, staff lieutenant in Prussian headquarters

*Hohenlau, Generalleutnant, Prussian commander under Bennigsen

*Horner, Arctic pilot

*Hozier, captain, Lively

Jervis, Earl St Vincent

Jervis, Mr, nephew of Earl St Vincent, crown prosecutor in Popham court-martial

*Knowles, reporting agent

Labanoff, Russian cavalry general

*Marceau, captain, Preussen

*Miss Sophy, young London socialite

Mulgrave, first lord of the Admiralty

*Parker, former captain of Tyger

Phillip, rear admiral, Impress Service

Popham, Sir Home, senior post captain

Popov, mayor of Archangel

*Purvis, Renzi’s butler

*Rogers, captain, Stoat

Russell, vice admiral

Scharnhorst, Prussian chief of general staff

Soult, French general

*Stuart, foreign office

Victor, French general

Voronov, Kapitan, port captain of Archangel

Wilkinstone, rear admiral

Young, admiral, president of court-martial