Pequod (Moby-Dick) the ship's affairs to these two." Peleg served as first mate under Ahab on "Pequod" before obtaining his own command, and is responsible for all her whalebone embellishments. The depiction of life aboard the ship was based on Melville's own experiences in whaling (specifically aboard the "Acushnet" in the 1840s) and thus can be taken in many ways as representative of mid-19th-century Nantucket whaling. Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel "Moby-Dick" by American author Herman Melville. "Pequod" and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which,
The Ship Who Searched series representing science fiction and modern convention in general. Einstein observes that 40 years later we have The essay serves as a call for reader-submitted stories that incorporate its values. Einstein concludes, The Ship Who Searched The Ship Who Searched is a science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey. It is the third of seven books in "The Ship Who Sang" series by McCaffrey and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey. It was first published as a serial in the monthly "Amazing Stories", June to September, and as a paperback original by Baen