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) She would then act as the model for the subsequent s. "Haddock" sailed for Jamaica on 11 December. In 1806 she was under Lieutenant Edward Foley. On 22 May she captured "Arrogante", for which head money for 19 men was paid in March 1828. In 1808 Lieutenant Charles William Selwyn took command. On 6 September, the American vessel "Nancy", Ringhaven, master, arrived at Jamaica. She had been sailing from Havana to Jamaica when "Haddock" detained her and sent her in. On 12 November 1809 the 18-gun square-rigged brig "Génie" captured "Haddock", which was under the command of Lieutenant Henry Edwards.