Captain

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“Full steam ahead!”

― Captain's catch phrase

Captain

Built: Somewhere between 1932 and 1945

Captain is a brave wooden lifeboat. He is part of the Search and Rescue Team.

Bio

In "Misty Island Rescue" he helped to look for Thomas. In "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure" he brings a policeman to arrest Sailor John.

Persona

Captain is a lifeboat who resides at the Sodor Search and Rescue in his own small shed, ready, willing, and always on hand raring for action in case of an emergency. He can easily be dispatched from his shed by means of a slipway, but often resides in the small dock at the Search and Rescue Centre too. Being a lifeboat, Captain knows that duty may call out at sea to help and rescue anyone at any time. He takes this role seriously and is highly assertive, confident, and is unfazed in the face of daring, dangerous missions, but is not made ostentatious or egotistical by his important responsibilities. He is level-headed, always knows what has to be done, and shows good leadership skills.

Basis

Captain is an Ex-Royal National Lifeboat institution Liverpool Class Lifeboat.

Livery

Captain's cab is painted yellow, his sides, blue, and his hull, red. He's lined in white. He has a long, thin, yellow mast at the stern of his body.

Appearances

Television series

Season 14 - Henry's Health and Safety (cameo), Being Percy (cameo), Jumping Jobi Wood! (does not speak), and Merry Misty Island
Season 15 - Toby and Bash (cameo), Edward the Hero (cameo), James to the Rescue (cameo), Happy Hiro (cameo), Let it Snow (cameo), Stuck on You, and Fiery Flynn (cameo)
Season 16 - Race to the Rescue (cameo), Express Coming Through (does not speak), Welcome Stafford (cameo), and The Christmas Tree Express (cameo)
Season 18 - Emily Saves the World
Season 19 - Wild Water Rescue (cameo)

Specials:

Misty Island Rescue
Day of the Diesels (cameo)
King of the Railway (cameo)
Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (cameo)

Magazine stories

2010 - Misty Island Rescue (cameo)
2011 - Misty Island Rescue (cameo)
2012 - Making Hiro Happy (cameo), Stuck On You (speaks in speech bubble only), and The Fat Controller's Bedtime Story (Issue 647)
2013 - Toby to the Rescue, and All in a Day's Rescue
2015 - Emily Saves the World (does not speak)

Voice Actors

Keith Wickham (UK/US; Misty Island Rescue onwards)
Christoffer Staib (Norway; Misty Island Rescue - fifteenth season)
Kentarō Hayami (Japan; Misty Island Rescue theatrical version only)
Hidenari Ugaki (Japan; Misty Island Rescue DVD onwards)
Walter Wigand (Germany; Misty Island Rescue onwards)
Cezary Kwieciński (Poland; Misty Island Rescue - fifteenth season)
Jacek Król (Poland; eighteenth season onwards)
Alexander Heeren (The Netherlands; Misty Island Rescue onwards)
Armando Réndiz (Mexico)
Fabrice Trojani (France and French speaking Canada)
Salvador Serrano (Spain)

Trivia

Captain's livery is identical to Bulstrode's My First Thomas model.
It is currently unknown how Captain was brought to Sodor; in other words, there is no episode that shows viewers how Captain first arrived, at least not yet.