The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket fleet of warships, of a sailor's corpse at sea on the North Atlantic "off Madaket" (which is a harbor on Nantucket Island) and its reburial with military honours, ending with the gun salute. It also makes the first reference to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, specifically to the fictional character Captain Ahab. Throughout the poem, Lowell uses the fate of the fictional Pequod, the whaling ship in Moby Dick, as a metaphor for the fate of Warren Winslow and his fellow Navy crewmen of the "Turner" during World War II. Section II introduces the Quaker graveyard in Nantucket and Lowell's cousin, and
Perseverance (1801 whaling ship) Perseverance (1801 whaling ship) Perseverance (or Perserverance) was launched on the Thames in 1801. She then spent her entire career of 16 voyages as a whaler. Early in her career a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. "Perseverance" would herself later capture a vessel too. She was broken up in 1841. "Perseverance" entered "Lloyd's Register" in 1801 with W. Stevers, master, Mellish, owner, and trade London–Southern Fisheries. Voyage #1: Captain William Stavers received a letter of marque on 27 February 1801. On 9 March he sailed "Perseverance" for Walvis Bay. She was at Walvis