Lord Ramage Series (Incomplete) - Dudley Pope torrent

Category: Adventure
Language: EnglishKeywords: Dudley Pope Lord Ramage Raymond Sawyer Steven Pacey

Written by Dudley Pope
Read by Steven Pacey, Raymond Sawyer,
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Dudley Pope - Lord Ramage Series

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 martialled (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. 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.

1796 - sea battles raging and an attack from the French has left third-lieutenant Ramage the sole officer in charge of his frigate. With orders from Nelson to be obeyed and a daring mission to be completed, young Nicholas Ramage must rise to the challenge. Despite the grave adversity of his situation, Ramage embarks upon an intrepid rescue with quite unforeseen consequences.

Note: I do not at the present have the full series, and would deem it a pleasure if anybody could upload any of the missing audiobooks.
All Audiobooks have been copied over from well used cassettes and can at times be a bit scratchy sounding. SquireWill65.
Books available in this series are: Books 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, and 18.

Ramage Series:

1 Ramage (Narrator Steven Pacey )

Lord Ramage is the third lieutenant on His Majesty’s ship Sibella, but assumes command when the Captain, and the First and Second Lieutenants are killed by fire from a French ship. The French ship had fatally crippled the Sibella and had killed over half of her crew. As the new Captain, Ramage decides to abandon the sinking ship. He leaves the injured on the deck to be taken prisoner by the French and hopefully treated by their surgeon. Before he abandons the ship, Ramage retrieves some documents and the late Captain’s last orders. The remaining crew then loads into the four lifeboats and rows away. As they are rowing away, the crew of the French ship set the Sibella on fire after taking the injured off.
Ramage opens Sir John Jervis’s orders of the late Captain of the Sibella. The orders read that the Sibella was on a reconnaissance missions to extricate the Marchessa di Volterri along with five other nobles including the Marchessa’s two cousins. Ramage decides to go through with the rescue. He takes the captain’s gig with several topmen and the former Captain’s coxswain, Jackson, to complete the orders. They land upon Monte Argentario and find the Marchessa with the help of a local charcoal maker.
Ramage rescues the Marchessa and one of her cousins, Count Pisano. They are soon picked up by the Lively under the command of Captain Probus. That night Pisano accuses Ramage of cowardice, submitting a formal accusation to Probus. During their time together, the Marchessa and Ramage develop a Romeo-and-Juliet-esque relationship, with the conniving of her family and the demands of discretion upon them.
After the Marchessa is returned, Ramage is sent to trial according to the Articles of War for his loss of the Sibella. Captain Croucher, a political enemy of Ramage’s father, brings the accusation of cowardice into the trial. Ramage’s trial is interrupted by Lord Nelson’s arrival, effectively ending the trial. Nelson gives him the command of the cutter Kathleen sending him to rescue the crew of the frigate HMS Belette which had run aground. Ramage saves the stranded crew and returns to Nelson. Upon his return, he learns that Count Pitti, who he had been unable to rescue had not been killed, but instead escaped. The book ends as Ramage considers his commands to carry the Marchessa to Gibraltar.

2 Ramage and the Drum Beat (Narrator Steven Pacey )

The book follows Nicholas Lord Ramage, by now a lieutenant, and his experiences commanding the cutter HMS Kathleen. Dispatched by Commodore Horatio Nelson to carry messages to Gibraltar while transporting the Italians refugees rescued in Ramage. During the voyage, the Marchessa and Ramage exchange rings through a faked shooting competition. Soon the Kathleen encounters the crippled Spanish frigate, La Sabina. Deciding that it would be foolish and unpolitic to leave the hulk drifting at sea, he forces the ship to surrender to his far inferior armed ship by a faked attempt at blowing the stern off the ship. He takes La Sabina in tow.
Soon after, two British frigates encounter the Kathleen and remove the prisoners from the hulk in tow. The Captain of one of the ships also took charge of the Marchessa, to the great reluctance of Ramage and herself. Soon after, Ramage and the hulk drift into a Spanish fleet returning to the port of Cartagena. Though the Kathleen is captured, Ramage passes himself off as an American sailor pressed by the British with the help of Jackson and receives liberty from the Spanish. While in Cartegena,(with other foreign and non-foreign refugees from the kathleen who had fake protections) Ramage spies on the Spanish admiral José de Córdoba stealing several official documents from his house. From these Ramage learns that the Spanish fleet will soon sail for the Atlantic. Realizing the danger of the situation, he steals a xebec and returns to Gibraltar where he finds the recaptured Kathleen. The Commissioner of the port, then sends Ramage to find Sir John Jervis and warn him of the battle. After a squall, he encounters the fleet which quickly proceeds to Cape St. Vincent where they fight the Spanish fleet on 14 February 1797, the Kathleen acting as a support ship for Lord Nelson. Entangled in the battle, Ramage and the Kathleen become integral in the fouling of the San Nicholas aboard the San Jose allowing Nelson in the HMS Captain (1787) to come into battle. The British fleet is victorious capturing 4 ships and Ramage nearly dies from a wound which knocks him into the sea. However, he is rescued by several of his sailors, but gains no credit for his role in the battle.

3 Ramage and the Freebooter (Narrator Raymond Sawyer )

Ramage is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton’s crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat…

5 Ramages Prize (Narrator Steven Pacey )

Lord Ramage returns for another highly-charged and thrilling adventure at sea. Instructed with the task of discovering why His Majesty’s dispatches keep unaccountably disappearing, Ramage finds himself involved in a situation far beyond his expectations. Based on true events, Ramage’s Prize is another gripping story from Dudley Pope.

6 Ramage and the Guillotine (Narrator Steven Pacey )

As France recovers from her bloody Revolution, Napoleon is amassing his armies for the Great Invasion. News in England is sketchy and the Navy must prepare to defend the land from foreign attack. Lieutenant Ramage is chosen to travel to France and embark upon the perilous quest of spying on the great Napoleon. His mission is to determine the strength of the French troops - but his discovery will mean the guillotine!

7 Ramages Diamond (Narrator Raymond Sawyer )

Ranked as a captain, the youngest in His Majesty’s navy and one with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean isle of Martinique and, off its southwest coast, Diamond Rock.

His mission at first seems humdrum: to barricade the French within Fort Royal. But sent to sea in the Juno, with a crew turned restless and disgruntled under the prior command of a drunk, Ramage realizes that his vessel may not be up to confronting the French. Before he can shape up the Juno and her men, the ship is beset by desperate and dangerous privateers.

9 Ramage and the Rebels (Narrator Steven Pacey)

Setting off on a presumably predictable sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica, Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon a scene of carnage: A sinking British ship, her crew and passengers, men and women alike, ruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer. Supported by his men in a thirst for righteous vengeance, Ramage ferrets out the brigand’s name and sets sail to bring him in.

10 The Ramage Touch (Narrator Steven Pacey)

Ramage’s Touch finds the ever-popular Lord Ramage in the Mediterranean with another daring mission to undertake. He soon makes a shocking discovery, which dramatically transforms the nature of the task at hand. With the nearest English vessel a thousand miles away, Ramage must embark upon a truly perilous and life-threatening course of action. With everything stacked against him, he has only one chance to succeed…

13 Ramages Devil (Narrator Steven Pacey )

On holiday, ashore with his new wife at a chateau in France, Captain Lord Ramage finds the honeymoon interrupted by an end to the Peace of Amiens-and a return to war which will last over a decade. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and Sarah elude the grasp of Napoleon’s secret police, seeking to close upon all the Brits and French Royalists they can find. Even as they escape, their host is captured and deported to the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. Ultimately, back at the helm of the Calypso and among old friends, Ramage finds himself heading in the same direction. But given the Island’s impregnable reputation, can he pull off a rescue?

14 Ramages Trial (Narrator Steven Pacey )

Lord Ramage has made his name through numerous brave, daring and extremely perilous sea battles. He has been charged with impossible tasks and has succeeded time after time gaining honour and glory for king and country. He has undertaken his tasks loyally with skill and valour. So it is with some surprise that he finds that perhaps his greatest enemy of all comes from within the British Navy itself. He is forced to undergo a battle that will require his very all.

15 Ramages Challenge (Narrator Steven Pacey )

The Napoleonic Wars are raging and a group of eminent British citizens have been taken captive in the Mediterranean by French troops. The Admiralty traces their location and sends the valiant Lord Ramage to affect their release. As Ramage and his crew negotiate the hazardous waters off the Tuscan coast, they soon begin to doubt the accuracy of their instructions. Ramage comes to realize that in order for his mission to succeed he must embark upon a fearful and highly dangerous escapade where the stakes have never been higher. Ramage’s Challenge is another action-packed naval adventure from the masterful Dudley Pope.

18 Ramages and the Dido (Narrator Steven Pacey )
This is the last book (18) in the Ramage series (1990), sequel to, Ramage and the Saracens.

Their Lordships of the Admiralty have seen fit to make Lord Nicholas Ramage the youngest captain of a ship of the line since Nelson himself. His new vessel is the most formidable war machine in the British Navy, carrying enough weight of metal to sink a frigate. Accompanied by his faithful old crew, Captain Ramage sets out for the West Indies. But before he reaches the Caribbean he runs into a storm of trouble.