Red Rackham's Treasure

The Red Rackham's Treasure ( original French title: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is a comic from the series The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, which was first published on 19 February 1943 to 23 September 1943 in the newspaper Le Soir.

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In the previous band The secret of " Einhorn" discover Tintin and Captain Haddock, the position of the wreck of the Unicorn, a captured pirate ship that of his captain Frantz Knights of Hadoque, an ancestor of Haddock, 1676 was blown up in the Caribbean. After the destruction of the ship Hadoque fled to a nearby island. Tintin and Captain Haddock believe that the pirate treasure is located in the remains of the sunken Unicorn.

Tim and the captain rent a ship, the Sirius, for finding this treasure. When the crew meets to prepare for the trip, discovered their plans and published by the press, so Tim and Haddock are being harassed by numerous strangers who count themselves among Rackham's descendants and occupy a part of the treasure. You will quickly displaced by Haddock.

Another visitor is Professor Calculus, an eccentric and largely hearing impaired inventor who offers the use of its special haiförmigen electrically powered one-man submarine to search for the sunken ship in which one is not the risk of the many sharks in the water exposes. Treasure Seekers without him and his idea and prepare more before the trip.

Before Tintin leave the port achieve their friends Thomson and Thompson the ship with a mission to protect the crew from the possible threat of Maximus bird Faull, a rival treasure hunters, who has escaped from prison. ( Ultimately, never seen or mentioned, so it is a MacGuffin to get the detectives on board the ship again bird Faull ). Shortly after the departure notice Tim and Haddock, Professor Calculus that is located in a lifeboat as a stowaway on board. The professor stowed loose parts of his submarine in boxes, in which formerly Haddock's whiskey was. Although he initially threatens to throw the Professor overboard, he reluctantly decides to keep him on the ship.

The coordinates on the parchment enter an island in the Caribbean Sea, in the north of the island of Hispaniola, on. First, the island is at the coordinates (20 ° 37 '42 " North, 70 ° 52' 15" West) not found, but then Tim is hypothesized that Frantz used by Hadoque the meridian of Paris instead of the meridian of Greenwich, so that the coordinates 20 ° 37 '42 " North, 68 ° 32 ' 1" West are. In fact, the ship reaches an unknown and uninhabited island, as it suggests Tim and his friends. When they want to explore it, pushes the captain with his toes on a piece of wood that sticks out of the sand in which it is the remains of Hadoques rowboat. When they reach the interior of the island, they fall numerous skulls that keeps Tim for remains of the former cannibalistic inhabitants of the island on. There is also a beautiful pagan statue of the Knight of Hadoque and numerous parrots who repeat the curses Haddock. This amuses Tim, as they maintained the behavior over generations.

Calculus submarine proves to be very useful in the search for the sunken Unicorn, while the actual investigation of the wreck is done with a helmet diving apparatus. Thomson and Thompson soon regret their decision to participate in the treasure hunt, because they have to operate the huge pumps for air supply when Tim and later the captain exploring the wreck. Despite complications such as shark attacks, they discover a gold studded cross, a chest with old documents, the figurehead of the ship and to Haddock's delight a large stock of rum from Jamaica.

When the crew is spotted a large wooden cross on the island of Tim believes that "The Cross of the Eagle ", reveals in reference to their map the location of the treasure. Under the cross, the team starts to dig, but after a while noticed Tim, that this is a red herring that Frantz would not have permitted the treasure on an island that he no longer wanted to be controlled. So they go back to Sirius.

There are still more dives to the wreck, but the treasure is not found and the team goes back home disappointed. There arise the further studies on the parchment out of the box by Professor Calculus, Haddock that the heir of the castle Mühlenhof - it was the knight Hadoque bequeathed by the French king for his services. After this discovery, Tim insists that the heir to repurchase the property, which stands on the sale, but the captain refuses recalling from that he had recently consumed its resources for their unsuccessful treasure hunt. However Calculus has received much money from the government for the sale of the patent on his submarine and thus it helps the captain as a reward for the successful testing of the submarine.

After the purchase of the castle Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock explore the basement of the mansion. Among the antiquities that had hoarded ( the former owners of the plant), the brothers bird Faull, there is a statue of John the Evangelist and Tim remembers that this on which he lived to the island in exile, "The Eagle of Patmos " is called and that he is often depicted with this bird.

For the statue has a globe and Tim finds the island on which they suspected Frantz Hadoques treasure. He accidentally discovered that it is a button to open the globe. The treasure was hidden in the world - and the statue holding a cross on as they are received on the card.

Trivia

The haiförmige submarine from the book was an inspiration for " Troy ", the U- boat that was taken by underwater filmmaker and oceanographer Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau developed.
This album and The secret of " Einhorn" are the best-selling Adventures of Tintin.
The name Red Rackham is derived from the real pirate Jack Rackham.
The captain speaks almost exactly the first verses from the poem " Le Lac " by Alphonse de Lamartine (page 32) when his hand is bitten off almost by sharks.
In the movie Kramer vs. Kramer reads Ted Kramer ( Dustin Hoffman ) in front of his son from this book.

Literature / Sources

Michael Farr: In the footsteps of Tintin, Carlsen, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-551-77110-0
Hergé: The Red Rackham's Treasure, Carlsen, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3551732316

Tim - and - Tintin album

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