| | Dudley Pope: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | His ship was torpedo (Armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target) ed the next year (1942), and he was invalided out. |
| | Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper (A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements), then moved to the London Evening News in 1944, where he was the naval and defence correspondent. |
| | Forester (English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)), the creator of the famed Hornblower (additional info and facts about 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. |
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