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
HMS Haddock (1805) command of "lieutenant de vaisseau" Degrave. On 16 November "Génie" captured two more vessels. One was "Lusitania", Carmen, master, which had been sailing from Grenada to London. The second was "Fortune", of Bristol, Hare, master, which had been sailing from St Croix to London. The Frenchmen plundered "Lusitania" and then put the captured crews on board her. Next the Frenchmen sank "Fortune" and "Haddock" and let "Lusitania" depart. "Lusitania" arrived at Portsmouth on 25 November. HMS Haddock (1805) HMS "Haddock" was a Royal Navy schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel