Captain Haddock the Anglo-Dutch Wars. The grandfather of Richard Haddock, also a sea captain, commanded the ship of the line HMS Unicorn during the reign of Charles I. Bianca Castafiore has a difficult time remembering Haddock's name. In "The Castafiore Emerald." she confuses his name with malapropisms such as "Paddock", "Harrock", "Padlock", "Hopscotch", "Drydock", "Stopcock", "Maggot", "Bartók", "Hammock", and "Hemlock". The fictional Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, "Tintin and the Picaros" (1976), when the name "Archibald" was suggested. The name appears in Hergé's notes in 1938. According to Philippe Goddin, author of "Hergé - Chronologie d'une
Haddock are in the North Sea, off the Faroe Islands, off Iceland and the coast of Norway but these are discrete populations with little interchange between them. Off North America, the haddock is found from western Greenland south to Cape Hatteras, but the main commercially fished stock occurs from Cape Cod and the Grand Banks. It also occurs around Novaya Zemlya and the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The haddock is a demersal species which occurs at depths from to , although it is most frequently recorded at to . It is found over substrates made up of rock, sand, gravel