Captain Haddock oeuvre", it is inspired by the German French-language film "Captain Craddock". In "The Crab with the Golden Claws", Haddock sings one of the film songs, "Les gars de la Marine". At the time of Captain Haddock's introduction to the series in 1940, the character's manners presented a problem to Hergé. As a sailor, Haddock would need to have a very colourful vocabulary, but Hergé could not use any swear words as he knew his audience included children. The solution reportedly came when Hergé recalled how around 1933, shortly after the Four-Power Pact had come into being, he had overheard a
Unicorn (ship) Unicorn (ship) The Unicorn () is a fictional 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel appearing in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The ship plays a leading role in both "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure", published in 1943 and 1944, respectively. The "Unicorn" also appears in the 2011 film adaptation "". In the "Tintin" adventures, the "Unicorn" is the setting of a battle between pirates and sailors followed by a duel between its captain, Sir Francis Haddock (an ancestor of Captain Haddock) and the pirate Red Rackham. The "Unicorn" is scuttled