Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. It was filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998. The miniseries consisted of two episodes, each running two hours with commercials on March 15 and 16 of 1998 on the USA Network. Ishmael is a young sailor who joins the crew of the whaling ship "Pequod"; Captain Ahab is in charge of "Pequod". Queequeg meets Ishmael at a motel and joins Ishmael in his whaling journey. Ahab rejects the repeated pleas
Carthaginian (ship) delivered to San Diego later that year. After advertising its availability, Thompson sold the ship to the Mirisch Company, which was filming "Hawaii". Thompson held an option to be the first to repurchase the ship after filming was completed. Under Mirisch, it was fitted with square rigging to modify its appearance as a 19th-century whaling ship in San Pedro for scenes in the 1966 film "Hawaii". The refit was performed under the supervision of noted vintage sailing ship experts Alan Villiers (who served as captain), Ken Reynard (mate), Karl Kortum, and Bill Bartz, who then sailed the ship to Hawaii.