The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket fleet of warships, of a sailor's corpse at sea on the North Atlantic "off Madaket" (which is a harbor on Nantucket Island) and its reburial with military honours, ending with the gun salute. It also makes the first reference to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, specifically to the fictional character Captain Ahab. Throughout the poem, Lowell uses the fate of the fictional Pequod, the whaling ship in Moby Dick, as a metaphor for the fate of Warren Winslow and his fellow Navy crewmen of the "Turner" during World War II. Section II introduces the Quaker graveyard in Nantucket and Lowell's cousin, and
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