Major Cuthbert Blanedale Frunk was a perilous Long Patrol hare under Mandoral Highpeak. His daughter Petunia was brutally murdered by sea-raiding vermin on the Salamandastron shores. After his daughter's death, Frunk hunted down the murderers, disposed of them and took their ship, re-naming it the Purloined Petunia in her honor; he was nearly killed in the fight, suffering a multitude of wounds that left him badly scarred and cost him half an ear. Mandoral Highpeak allowed Frunk's name to live on in a ship he later captured, naming it the Fearless Frunk.