# Captain Hardy — Short Fiction character guide

> Captain Hardy in Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** good Captain Hardy

**First appearance:** 0009-ms-found-in-a-bottle

## Who they are

Ship captain who assists in the voyage in 'MS. Found in a Bottle'.

## In the story

### [The Oblong Box](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/chapters/the-oblong-box)

The captain of the Independence who arranges for the corpse to be brought aboard as merchandise and advises the narrator to avoid Wyatt.

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