Captain Craddock Captain Craddock Captain Craddock (French: Le capitaine Craddock) is a 1931 German French-language musical comedy film directed by Max de Vaucorbeil and Hanns Schwarz and starring Jean Murat, Käthe von Nagy and Charles Redgie. It is a French-language version of the 1931 German film "Bombs on Monte Carlo". It is sometimes known as Bombe Sur Monte Carlo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. According to Philippe Goddin, author of "Hergé - Chronologie d'une oeuvre", the name of "Tintin"'s character Captain Haddock is inspired by this film. In "The Crab with the Golden Claws", Haddock sings
Herbert Haddock informed of the disaster by wireless operator Ernest James Moore at 2250 ET on 14 April. After receiving a CQD call from "Titanic", Haddock calculated a new course and headed directly to her. He also sent for an engineer to set the ship's engines to full power. When from "Titanic", at approximately 1600 ET on 15 April, Haddock received a message from Captain Rostron of RMS "Carpathia", explaining that continuing on course to "Titanic" would gain nothing, as "All boats accounted for. About 675 souls saved [...] Titanic foundered about 2.20 am." Rostron requested that the message be forwarded to