Ishmael (Moby-Dick) morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler "Pequod", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the "Rachel". The name Ishmael is
Carthaginian (ship) later renamed "Carthaginian II", was acquired to replace it later in 1973. Carthaginian (ship) Carthaginian (ex-"Wandia") was a three-masted schooner built in Denmark in 1921, converted in 1964-1965 into a typical 19th century square-rigged whaling ship for the filming of the 1966 movie "Hawaii". Its third life was as a museum ship, moored in the harbor of the former whaling town of Lāhainā on the Hawaiian island of Maui, explaining the whaling industry in the Hawaiian islands. "Carthaginian" was lost in 1973 when it ran aground just outside the harbor on its way to drydock maintenance on Oahu, and it