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The youngest captain in His Majesty's Navy, with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Diamond Rock. The mission seems humdrum: barricade the French within Fort Royal. But sent to sea in the Juno with a crew grown restless and undisciplined under the prior commmand of a drunk, Ramage realizes his vssel may not be up to battle with the French.
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Lord Ramage, the navy's youngest and most junior captain, is ordered to set sail for Diamond Rock, off the West Indian island of Martinique. It is a routine mission – to blockade the French in Fort Royal – but the Juno, his new command, is not a routine naval vessel. With a crew grown slack and mutinous under its alcoholic ex-captain, the Juno is in no state to take on the pride of the French fleet.. Surprised by a sudden and daring attack by ruthless French privateers in West Indian waters, the new captain and his untried crew are stretched to within an inch of their lives..
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Ramage's Diamond is one of the best books in the Ramage set. It begins with Ramage attaining his long awaited promotion to post captain, the very honourable Lord St Vincent himself informs him of this! If that's not enough he immediately gets a frigate which is now mastered by, no other than, Soutwick.. Ramage finds out that taking over from a drunken, lunatic of a captain is not easy and follows orders to sail to the West Indies. En route he and Southwick, as well as the new first lieutenant, manage to train the slack, nearly mutinous, crew. This training was to come in helpful as nearly straight after they get to the West Indies they see action, capturing a few frigates and schooners as well as some merchant men during the few months they was there.
This is another magnificent book by Dudley Pope, it is well written and is one of the best for far. Pope always gives clear descriptions of every day life and action whether it be on board on the ship or on dry land. This book is also a major turning point in the Ramage series, that's why I recommend that you read it without further delay! .
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is installment 7 of Dudley Pope's Nicholas Ramage series. It is heads and tails above #6. Ramage is the quintessential hero. The reader knows that Ramage will succeed in his endeavors. The fun part about these novels is finding out HOW Ramage will succeed. He has way too much success--almost Deus ex machina. The action and episodes in this novel are all interesting. The battles are described well and keep the reader's interest. As usual, though, there is really too much detail when Ramage has his men hoist some guns onto the top of a mountain. Pope, just let the guys get the guns up and start shooting at the Frogs! For that, this book get 4 and a half stars. But the rest of the book is great fun. I might add that the BBC chose the wrong story for its naval hero. The Ramage stories are much more interesting than Hornblower.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great rebound from #6
31 Jan 2007
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This is installment 7 of Dudley Pope's Nicholas Ramage series. It is heards and tails above #6. Ramage is the quintessential hero. The reader knows that Ramage will succeed in his endeavors. The fun part about these novels is finding out HOW Ramage will succeed. He has way too much success--almost Deus ex machina. The action and episodes in this novel are all interesting. The battles are described well and keep the reader's interest. As usual, though, there is really too much detail when Ramage has his men hoist some guns onto the top of a mountain. Pope, just let the guys get the guns up and start shooting at the Frogs! For that, this book get 4 and a half stars. But the rest of the book is great fun. I might add that the BBC chose the wrong story for its naval hero. The Ramage stories are much more interesting than Hornblower.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Engineering mastrerpiece off Martinique
2 Dec 2005
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Based on historical events, this novel retells the story of a tremendous feat of martial engineering. Ramage captures frigates and schooners and builds his own fleet. Recognizing the importance of controlling the shipping lanes in and out of Fort de France, he manages to mount baterries on a huge towering rock, known as the Diamond. With the batteries and his ragtag fleet, he manages to defeat a much larger French fleet and supply convoy, sinking, burning or capturing the entire lot. The detail work is good, and the story moves well, never letting the readers interest lag. My personal favorite in the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The author is back in form in an excellent adventure series
8 Sep 2010
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The book before this seventh one in the generally excellent and highly enjoyable Napoleonic naval series was not one of the author's more successful efforts, focusing as it did on Lieut. Lord Nicholas Ramage's undercover mission into Boulogne to spy out the French preparations for the invasion of Britain. Ramage did well out of it, however, being made post into a frigate by the First Lord himself. He was immediately sent off to Barbados with important dispatches to the admiral and on the way had to whip into ship a very slovenly crew nearly ruined by a drunken captain and his equally alcoholic first lieutenant. He has three young new lieutenants of the First Lord's choosing and all turn out to be excellent, fortunately for him. From Barbados, he's sent to take over the blockade of the harbor of Fort Royal at Martinique, the only remaining significant French holding in the Caribbean. Ramage mounts a cutting-out operation that nets him a French frigate and a couple of privateer schooners. And off the southwest coast of the island is Diamond Rock, sticking up like a canine tooth from deep water. In 1804, Commodore Hood managed to sway up enough ship's guns to turn the Rock into a fortress to control the shipping lanes into Martinique, but here (naturally) Ramage does the job, spurred on by the knowledge that a French convoy is due with very badly needed supplies for the island. With his small squadron, he makes his preparations, building his plans around the element of surprise -- a point Pope makes a number of times as Ramage drums the principle into his subordinates. The whole thing, from the arming of Diamond Rock to the breath-holding action against the convoy, is fascinating and very well done indeed. And at the end of it all, Ramage is poised to embark on another "special service," so there's more to come. This is one of the best in the series so far.
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