# Captains Courageous — Character guide

> Key figures in Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.

- [Harvey Cheyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/harvey_cheyne.md): A fifteen-year-old heir whose fortune cannot save him from a fishing schooner's deck, where he must earn the pay his father's money never bought.
- [Dan Troop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/dan_troop.md): Disko's son, raised on the Banks and quick with a joke or a chorus, who teaches the shipwrecked rich boy what a day's work actually costs.
- [Disko Troop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/disko_troop.md): The We're Here's taciturn master, whose logbook and infallible judgments govern a floating town of fishermen with the same steady hand he gives his own son.
- [Uncle Salters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/uncle_salters.md): A farmer-turned-fisherman whose scripture-quoting and stubborn moralizing make him the crew's favorite target and its most earnest conscience.
- [Penn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/penn.md): A gentle, forgetful hand aboard the We're Here whose blank past and childlike prayers unsettle the men who cannot decide whether to pity or fear him.
- [Tom Platt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/tom_platt.md): An old man-of-war's-man turned Banks fisherman, whose steady hands and sea stories give the dory fleet its bearings and the greenhorn his first lessons.
- [Long Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/long_jack.md): Long Jack is one of Disko Troop's most seasoned hands, a big-framed Bluenose whose chanteys and easy laugh soften the schooner's brutal labor. Yet his cheer masks a sharp judgment of landsmen and a fierce pride in the fi
- [Manuel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/manuel.md): Manuel rows and fishes alongside the We're Here's crew, a soft-spoken foreigner in a fleet of blunt Yankees and Bluenoses who nonetheless earns his place through sheer competence. His kindness to Harvey and his wordless 
- [Mrs. Cheyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/mrs_cheyne.md): Mrs. Cheyne drifts from Florida to the Adirondacks to Europe, trailing a fortune she cannot spend into happiness and a boy she cannot manage. When word arrives that Harvey has been picked up by a fishing schooner, her sh
- [Mr. Cheyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/mr_cheyne.md): Mr. Cheyne owns half a dozen railroads and piles up rocks while his wife raises Harvey alone, a bargain he never questions until a telegram from Gloucester shatters his composure. His response is characteristic: private 
- [Ben Ireson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/ben_ireson.md): A skipper mentioned in a song and story, known for a tragic incident.
- [Mother Carey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/mother_carey.md): Mythical figure referenced by sailors, associated with the sea.
- [Frenchmen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captains_courageous_se/characters/frenchmen.md): Group of French-Canadian fishermen encountered by the crew.

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