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
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