বায়োগ্রাফি: Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS was a Royal Navy officer whose life on aborad inspired him to become a novelist. He was an associate of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of Nautical fiction, mainly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836), for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code. Born in Westminster, London, his parents are Joseph Marryat, a successful merchant and Parliament member and his American wife, Charlotte, née von Geyer. In 1806 he was hired as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse by the famous Lord Cochrane (who later served as inspiration for Marryat and other authors). He married Catherine Shairp in 1819 and they 11 children including Florence Marryat a prolific novelist and his biographer Emilia Marryat, a writer of moralist adventure novels in her father's vein; and Augusta, also a writer of adventure fiction.