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 Sang in the series, "The Ship Who Searched" (1992) by McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey, Einstein observes that in fact we have The 1960s stories feature one shell person, Helva, who becomes brainship XH-834. All but the novella "Dramatic Mission" are novelettes, short fiction in 7500 to 17,500 words. They were incorporated in "The Ship Who Sang" novel (1969) as the first five chapters with a new closing chapter or short story, "The Partnered Ship". McCaffrey wrote two more Helva novelettes: The Ship series comprises the Helva stories and six novels published in the 1990s by Baen Books. More than twenty years