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
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