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
Neil Haddock only until the fifth when Haddock retired from his corner after being knocked down earlier in the round. A month later Haddock picked up a win, when he stopped Mark Ramsey through a technical knockout, in an undercard encounter at the Town Hall in Birmingham. This was followed in November with a bout against fellow countryman Steve Robinson, held in Cardiff. The ten round fight lasted until the ninth, when the referee stopped the fight due to cuts sustained by Haddock. Haddock was forced to retire from boxing for a period due to a retina injury. During his time away