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,
Carthaginian (ship) 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 was replaced as a whaling museum by "Carthaginian II" in 1980. The