Pequod (Moby-Dick) 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, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans. Most of the characters in the novel are part of "Pequod"s crew, including the narrator Ishmael. Ishmael encounters the ship after he arrives in Nantucket and learns of three ships that are about to leave on three-year cruises. Tasked by
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