Whaler
Videos
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen, painted by Abraham Storck.
Charles W. Morgan was a whaleship built in 1841
Harpoon ships of the Icelandic whaling fleet in port.
Ship model of a whaler, NAVIGO National Fisheries Museum, Belgium
Pequod (Moby-Dick)
Videos
The 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 t
Whaler
…Previous to that was the whaleship of the 16th to early 20th centuries, driven first by sail and then by steam. The most famous example is the fictional Pequod in Moby-Dick, a novel based on the whaling industry in Nantucket and New Bedford. Whaleships carried multiple whaleboats, open rowing boats used to…
Elijah points out the Pequod to Ishmael and Queequeg