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Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 - 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. He was born in Ashford, Kent By concealing his age he joined he Home Guard aged 14 and at age 16 joined the merchant navy as a midshipman. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942) and he spent two weeks in a lifeboat with the few other survivors. After he was invalided out the only obvious sign of the injuries he'd suffered was a joint missing from one finger due to gangrene. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to The Evening News in London, where he was the naval and defence correspondent.
   His first book, Flag 4, was published in 1954, followed by several other historical accounts. C. S. Forester, the creator of the famed Horatio Hornblower novels, encouraged Pope to add fiction to his repertoire, and in 1965, Ramage appeared, the first of what was to become an 18-novel series.
   He took to living on boats from 1953 on; when he married Kay Pope in 1954, they lived on a William Fife 8-meter named Concerto, then at Porto Santo Stefano, Italy in 1959 with a 42-foot ketch Tokay. In 1963 he and Kay moved to a 53-foot cutter Golden Dragon, on which they moved to Barbados in 1965. In 1968 they moved onto a 54-foot wooden yacht named Ramage, aboard which he wrote all of his stories until 1985.
   His books have been criticized because they often represent Spanish sailors as incompetent or stupid, which is an incorrect stereotype, as the Spanish Navy was one of the best of the period.

Books

Ramage series (in sequence order in the life of Ramage)

Most of the novels are based on real events in the late 18th and early 19th centures. The year of these events is shown before the book title. The year of publication between 1965 and 1989 is shown after the title.

1796 - Ramage (1965)
1797 - Ramage and the Drumbeat (1968)
1797 - Ramage and the Freebooters (1969)
1797 - Governor Ramage RN (1973)
1798 - Ramage's Prize (1974)
1801 - Ramage and the Guillotine (1975)
1804 - Ramage's Diamond (1976)
1799 - Ramage's Mutiny (1977)
1800 - Ramage and the Rebels (1978)
1800 - The Ramage Touch (1979)
1800 - Ramage's Signal (1980)
1802 - Ramage and the Renegades (1981)
1803 - Ramage's Devil (1982)
1803 - Ramage's Trial (1984)
1803 - Ramage's Challenge (1985)
1805 - Ramage at Trafalgar (1986)
1806 - Ramage and the Saracens (1988)
1806 - Ramage and the Dido (1989)

Yorke series

Buccaneer (1981)

Admiral (1982)

Galleon (1986)

Corsair (1987)

Other novels

Convoy (1979)

Decoy (1983)

Nonfiction

(1954)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

(1958)

Decision at Trafalgar (1959)

England Expects (1959)

The Black Ship (1963)

(1977)

(1978)

Life in Nelson's Navy (1981)

(1988)

At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot (1962)Further Information

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