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List of sea captains

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This is a list of sea captains. The list includes merchant ship's captains as well as naval ship's captains. It is limited to those notable in this role (those who already have Wikipedia articles).

Fictional sea captains

  • Captain Ahab, hero of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
  • Captain Jack Aubrey, hero of the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
  • John Blackthorne, hero of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun
  • Captain Ned Dana, master of the S.S. Balaska in the series The Dana Girls
  • Captain Corcoran, captain of the HMS Pinafore, from Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta of the same name; however, ultimately turns out to be a mere sailor on the Pinafore
  • Captain Crook, nominal spoof of Captain Cook; resident pirate captain of McDonaldland representing McDonald's "Filet-o-Fish" sandwich
  • Cap'n Crunch, mascot character for the cereal of the same name
  • Captain Dog, boat captain in the cartoon movie series Peppa Pig
  • Captain Englehorn, captain in a number of the King Kong films
  • Captain Gault, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson
  • Captain Jonas Grumby, a.k.a. "The Skipper", fron Gilligan's Island
  • Captain Haddock, captain in the comic album series The Adventures of Tintin
  • Captain James Hook, captain in the play and novel Peter Pan
  • Horatio Hornblower, protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester
  • John Silas Huntly, captain in The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • Captain Jat, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson
  • Maak, ship's captain in the comic strip Maakies
  • Captain Horatio McCallister, recurring character from the TV series The Simpsons
  • Captain Pugwash, captain of pirate ship in a cartoon of the same name
  • Ralph Rackstraw, originally a sailor on the HMS Pinafore (again, from the aforementioned Gilbert & Sullivan operetta); ultimately turns out to be the real captain of the Pinafore
  • Captain Ralls, captain played by John Wayne in Wake of the Red Witch
  • Captain Jack Sparrow, captain of the pirate ship Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean films
  • John Charity Spring, slave ship captain in Flash for Freedom and other novels of The Flashman Papers series by George MacDonald Fraser
  • Captain Merrill Stubing, captain in The Love Boat television series
  • Cap'n Turbot, a main character in the Canadian TV series PAW Patrol
  • Unnamed pirate captain who calls himself a "pirate king", who took Frederic in as an apprentice in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta, The Pirates of Penzance

    • References

    List of sea captains Wikipedia
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