Captain Ahab Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship "Pequod". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the "Pequod" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of
Diana (1840 ship) funeral was attended by an estimated fifteen thousand people. In 1869, while making her way back from the Davis Strait, "Diana" encountered a strong gale, and was washed into the Donna Nook sands, on the Lincolnshire coast, and broke up. "Diana" was the last whaling ship from the port of Hull. Her loss ended the whaling industry of the city, see Whaling in the United Kingdom. This is a partial list of Captains of "Diana": Diana (1840 ship) Diana was a whaling ship built in 1840, in Bremen, Germany. She sailed out of Hull, England. In 1858 a steam engine