Richard Haddock Navy. Sir Richard's third son, Nicholas, ended a distinguished naval career with the rank of Admiral of the Blue. Richard Haddock Sir Richard Haddock (c.1629 – 26 January 1715 Old Style) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral in August 1690. In Herge's Adventures of Tintin, Richard Haddock was one of the inspirations for Captain Haddock's 17th century ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Haddock was born into a distinguished navy family. His grandfather, also Richard Haddock, had been rewarded by the government in 1652, having held commands under
Haddock are in the North Sea, off the Faroe Islands, off Iceland and the coast of Norway but these are discrete populations with little interchange between them. Off North America, the haddock is found from western Greenland south to Cape Hatteras, but the main commercially fished stock occurs from Cape Cod and the Grand Banks. It also occurs around Novaya Zemlya and the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The haddock is a demersal species which occurs at depths from to , although it is most frequently recorded at to . It is found over substrates made up of rock, sand, gravel