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,
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