
The Ville de Lyon as seen in the Ellipse-Nelvana animated series
The Ville de Lyon was the ship, featured in The Broken Ear, that Rodrigo Tortilla (Rodrigo Lopez in the animated TV adaptation) was murdered on while en route back to his home country of San Theodoros by Ramon Bada and Alonso Perez after stealing the broken ear fetish in Europe. A disguised Tintin managed to capture the two just before the ship docked in Los Dopicos.
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Ville de Lyon is French for City of Lyon, the second largest city in France.