{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox character | name = Nicholas, Lord Ramage | creator = [[Dudley Pope]] | occupation = [[Naval officer]] | spouse = Sarah Ramage | gender = Male | title = Lord Ramage | family = Ramage Family | nationality = English }}
'''Nicholas, Lord Ramage''' is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of [[sea stories|sea novel]]s written by [[Dudley Pope]]. Ramage was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. He is a contemporary of [[Horatio Hornblower]], but unlike the latter, who never fought in a large fleet battle, Ramage participated in both [[Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)|the Battle of Cape St. Vincent]] and [[Battle of Trafalgar|the Battle of Trafalgar]].
==Early life== <sup>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.</sup><br /> Nicholas Ramage was born in 1775 at Blazey Hall in [[Cornwall]], the eldest son of the Earl of Blazey. Nicholas' father was a Vice-Admiral who was [[court martial]]led (some sympathetic colleagues felt unjustly so) and Nicholas is burdened by this legacy. Ramage's mother was fond of traveling and took Ramage to Tuscany to live in 1777, when his father departed to assume naval command in North America.<ref name = R_5152>''Ramage'' (MacBook Press ed.)</ref> 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.<ref name = R_5152/> Despite 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== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Ship !Rate !Guns !Main armament !Book !Notional Year !End of commission !Fictional? |- | HMS ''Sibella'' | [[Frigate]] | 28 |12pdr guns, carronades | ''[[Ramage (novel)|Ramage]]'' |1796 | Sunk |Yes |- | ''Kathleen'' |[[Cutter (boat)|Cutter]] |10 |10*6pdr carronades |''[[Ramage (novel)|Ramage]]'' | 1796 | Sunk |Yes |- | ''Triton'' |[[Brig]] |10 |10*12pdr carronades |''[[Ramage and the Freebooters]]'' | 1797 | Wrecked |Yes |- | HMS ''Juno'' |[[Frigate]] |32 |26*12pdr guns, 6*6pdr guns |''[[Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet|''Ramage's Diamond'']]'' |1801 | |Yes |- | HMS ''Calypso'' |[[Frigate]] |36 |36*12pdr guns, 6*12pdr carronades |''[[Ramage's Mutiny]]'' |1801 | |Yes |- | HMS ''Dido'' |[[Ship of the line]] |74 |28*32pdr, 30*24pdr, 16*12pdr guns, 8*12pdr carronades |''[[Ramage and the Dido]]'' |1807 | |Yes |}
==Novels Featured in== #''[[Ramage (novel)|Ramage]]'' (1965) #''[[Ramage and the Drumbeat]]'' (a.k.a. ''Drumbeat'') (1968) #''[[Ramage and the Freebooters]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Triton Brig'') (1969) #''[[Governor Ramage R.N.]]'' (1973) #''Ramage's Prize'' (1974) #''Ramage and the Guillotine'' (1975) #''Ramage's Diamond'' (1976) [[Diamond Rock|HMS Diamond Rock]] #''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)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==See also== {{portal|Novels}} *[[Jack Aubrey]] *[[Horatio Hornblower]] *[[The Bolitho novels]]
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