Captain Haddock Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel "Olympic". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship "Titanic" before "Titanic" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of
USS Haddock (SSN-621) and Submarine Squadron Three in February 1987. "Haddock" earned the Battle Efficiency "E" Award for fiscal year 1988. "Haddock" deployed to the Western Pacific for the eleventh time from July to October 1991. "Haddock" was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 April 1993. Ex-"Haddock" entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 1 October 2000. Recycling was completed on 1 October 2001. USS Haddock (SSN-621) USS "Haddock" (SSN-621), was the last to be built. She was also the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the haddock, a large species