Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called "Captain Pugwash", first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, "The Adventures of Captain Pugwash", first aired in 1998. The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the "Black Pig", ably assisted by
Ship-of-the-line captain navy's most important ships. He has five stripes and is addressed as "commandant". In naval slang, he is also known as a ""cap' de veau"". The rank of Captain (Italian: "capitano di vascello", lit. "naval vessel captain") also exists in the Italian Navy. He is addressed as ""comandante"". Ship-of-the-line captain Captain (French: "capitaine de vaisseau"; German: "linienschiffskapitän" (Austro-Hungarian Navy), "Kapitän zur See" (German and the Royal Netherlands navies); Italian Navy: "capitano di vascello"; Spanish Navy: "capitán de navío"; Croatian Navy: "kapetan bojnog broda") is a rank that appears in several navies. The name of the rank derives from the fact