List of Sea Patrol characters

This is a list of characters in Sea Patrol, an Australian TV series.

Current major characters

Mike "CO" Flynn

Lieutenant Commander Mike Flynn -- ("CO") -- is the Hammersley's Commanding Officer ("CO"), and one of the two principal characters of the series, present from beginning to end. Played by Ian Stenlake.

Kate "XO" McGregor

Lieutenant Kate McGregor -- ("XO") -- is the Hammersley's Executive Officer ("XO") (second-in-command), and one of the two principal characters of the series, present from beginning to end. Played by Lisa McCune.

Andy "Charge" Thorpe

Andrew "Andy" Thorpe
Sea Patrol character
First appearance	Welcome Aboard Ep. 1.01 (Pilot), aired 5 July 2007
Portrayed by	John Batchelor (Australian actor)
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Nickname(s)	Charge or Chargeo
Gender	Male
Spouse(s)	Helen (Divorced about 10 years ago)
Children	2, boy (Jamie) and girl (Jessica)
Rank	Chief Petty Officer
Position	Chief Engineer

Chief Petty Officer Andrew "Charge" Thorpe MBA is a fictional TV character on the show Sea Patrol. He is portrayed by John Batchelor. On HMAS Hammersley, Charge is the chief engineer. He has a son, named Jamie, who is a Midshipman in the Navy. His awards in order of precedence are as follows:

Australian Active Service Medal			International Force East Timor Medal
Afghanistan Medal (Australia)		Defence Long Service Medal with Rosette		Australian Defence Medal

Chris "Swain" Blake

Petty Officer Chris Blake -- ("Swain") -- is the ship's coxswain/medic, and often the softening influence on various situations, and is present throughout the entire series. Played by Matt Holmes.

Robert "RO" Dixon

Robert Dixon jr
Sea Patrol character
First appearance	Welcome Aboard Ep. 1.01 (Pilot), aired 5 July 2007
Portrayed by	Kristian Schmid
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Nickname(s)	RO
Gender	Male
Family	Father (deceased)
Rank	Leading Seaman
Position	Radio Operator

Leading Seaman Robert Dixon is a fictional TV character on the show Sea Patrol. He is portrayed by Kristian Schmid. Robert Dixon (also RO) is the radio operator on board HMAS Hammersley. RO usually makes pessimistic predictions about the events that take place in and around the Hammersley. He is known for his vast knowledge on foreign languages, his strange ability to keep calm and a straight-face at all times and his annoyance at almost everybody. His awards in order of precedence are as follows:

Australian Defence Medal

Rebecca "Bomber" Brown

Leo "2-Dads" Kosov-Meyer

Dylan "Dutchy" Mulholland

Jessica 'Gap Girl' Bird

Jessica "Gap Girl" Bird
Sea Patrol character
First appearance	"Night of the Long Knives" Ep. 4.01, aired 15 April 2010
Portrayed by	Danielle Horvat
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Nickname(s)	"Gap Girl" and "Bird"
Gender	Female
Rank	Seaman
Position	Gap Recruit (General Experience), later Chef/Assistant Medic

Jessica 'Gap Girl' Bird is a fictional television character portrayed by Danielle Horvat. She replaced Billy "Spider" Webb doing his Boatswain's Mate duties onboard HMAS Hammersley while doing her Gap Year in the RAN (Hence, partly at least, her nickname "Gap Girl" -- though she's usually just called "Bird"). Her first appearance was the first episode of Season 4. Jessica Bird is a young Navy sailor on HMAS Hammersley, after finishing high school she decided to sign up for a gap year on Navy patrol boat. Dutchy and the crew keep her under their wings. Bird is a favourite of the crew to be played pranks on - particularly by 2Dads (Kosov-Meyer).^[1] In series five, Bird becomes Hammersley's chef after Bomber leaves Hammersley after her affair with 2Dads.

Maxine 'Knocker' White

Commander Maxine 'Knocker' White, played by Tammy MacIntosh in Series 4 and 5, is the shore-based Squadron Commander, over HMAS and some other patrol craft in her area of command. She is the immediate superior to the HMAS Hammersley's Commanding Officer ("CO") Mike Flynn -- and his ex-wife. She has re-married, to a man named Stewart White, and had a son, Ryan, who later becomes a naval cadet aboard the HMAS Hammersley. Towards the end of the series, it becomes apparent that there is a more complicated relationship among these four characters, and the conclusion is dramatic.

Ryan White

Midshipman Ryan White, a naval cadet, played by Dominic Deutscher, takes his orientation cruise aboard the HMAS Hammersley -- apparently by the arrangement of his mother, the Hammersley's Squadron Commander, Commander Maxine 'Knocker' White -- ex-wife of the Hammersley's CO Mike Flynn. Though White is long-divorced from Flynn, and Ryan is apparently her son by a second husband (Stewart White), the relationship between Ryan and CO Flynn grows increasingly complex and serious as the final season progresses, and ends dramatically. Along the way, Ryan's adventures and crew relations are complicated by his semi-official standing as crew, by his internal coming-of-age crises, and his past, particularly by his relationship to the boatswain/chef, Jessica 'Gap Girl' Bird, with whom he had a relationship before his assignment to Hammersley.

Former major characters

John "Jaff" Jaffa

He died of getting stitched by an irukandji jellyfish in the fourth episode of Season 1.

Nikki "NAV" Caetano

Pete "Buffer" Tomaszewski

Josh "ET" Holliday

References

1. "SMN Jessica "Gap Girl" Bird (Danielle Horvat)". Sea-Patrol.com. Retrieved 8 June 2010.