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
SS Belgian Captain Code Letters were changed to ONCC. In 1960, "Capitaine Lambe" was sold to Mullion & Co Ltd, Hong Kong and was renamed "Ardee". In 1964, she was sold to Sigma Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong and was renamed "Alpha Trader". She was operated under the management of Trinity Development Co Ltd, Hong Kong. "Alpha Trader" served until 1967. She arrived at Shanghai, China for scrapping in November 1967. SS Belgian Captain Belgian Captain was a cargo ship which was built in 1942 as Empire Centaur for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1943 she was passed to the Belgian