"Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. It was filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998. The miniseries consisted of two episodes, each running two hours with commercials on March 15 and 16 of 1998 on the USA Network. Ishmael is a young sailor who joins the crew of the whaling ship ""Pequod""; Captain Ahab is in charge of ""Pequod"". Queequeg meets Ishmael at a motel and joins Ishmael in his whaling journey. Ahab rejects the repeated pleas"
"his new friend, the Polynesian harpooner Queequeg (or more precisely, Queequeg's idol-god, Yojo), to make the selection for them both, Ishmael, a self-described ""green hand at whaling,"" goes to the Straight Wharf and chooses the ""Pequod"". It is revealed that ""Pequod"" was named for the Algonquian-speaking Pequot tribe of Native Americans, decimated and scattered in the early 1600s by the Pequot War and by the epidemic that preceded it. The Mashantucket (Western Pequot tribe) and Eastern Pequot tribe still inhabit their reservation in Connecticut. ""Pequod"" has endured the years and the elements, but not without sustaining damage. The ship has"
"by the thick veneer of barbarity that has been overlaid onto the ship in the form of fantastic scrimshaw embellishment. Far from enjoying mere utilitarian replacements out of available whalebone, she has been ornately decorated, even to the whale teeth set into the railing that now resemble an open jaw. Like a fingerbone necklace on a cannibal, these adornments are clear evidence of ""Pequod""s success as a hunter and killer of whales. The principal owners of the vessel are two well-to-do Quaker retired whaling captains, therefore ""the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the whole management of"
"most factual accounts of whaling are not straight autobiography. On December 30, 1840, he signed on as a green hand for the maiden voyage of the ""Acushnet"", planned to last for 52 months. Its owner, Melvin O. Bradford, resembled Bildad, who signed on Ishmael, in that he was a Quaker: on several instances when he signed documents, he erased the word ""swear"" and replaced it with ""affirm"". But the shareholders of the ""Acushnet"" were relatively wealthy, whereas the owners of the ""Pequod"" included poor widows and orphaned children. Its captain was Valentine Pease, Jr., who was 43 years old at"
"Street as a ""granite"" icon to the Whaling Era. Alexander was the captain to many of the most successful early whaling voyages out of New London. A yet unconfirmed story about him is his ship eventually rescued stranded survivors of the Pequod. Richard Douglass Captain Richard Douglass (1746–1828) was born in New London, Connecticut in 1746 to Stephen and Patience Douglass. Richard Douglass ran a successful cooper business. Already in 1760 where there more than 40 ships from Brigs to Sloops registered in New London many under the Shaw Family flag conducting business in the East and West Indies as"
"the start of the voyage. Although 26 men signed up as crew members, two did not show up for the ship's departure and were replaced by one new crew member. The crew was not as heterogenous or exotic as the crew of the ""Pequod"". Five of the crew were foreigners, four of them Portuguese, and the others were American, either at birth or naturalized. Three black men were in the crew, two seamen and the cook. Fleece, the cook of the ""Pequod"", was also black, so probably modeled on this Philadelphia-born William Maiden, who was 38 years old when he"
"a quarterdeck and a forecastle and is three-masted like most Nantucket whalers of the time, but all three masts are replacements, taken on when the originals were lost in a typhoon off Japan. ""Pequod"" is not unlike Ahab in this respect, since many of the rest of these missing elements have been replaced by the bones of the whales she hunts. She is not a new vessel, and with age would usually come some veneration and respect, which Ishmael tries to convey by using several historical references in his description of her. But in ""Pequod""s case this has been negated"
"voyages ago, Ahab married a sweet, resigned girl, with whom he has a young son. He has been in colleges and among the cannibals, and has seen deeper wonders than the waves. He has fixed his lance, the keenest and surest on the isle of Nantucket, in stranger foes than whales. Years ago, Peleg, now the co-owner of ""Pequod"", sailed as mate under Ahab. During that voyage, a typhoon near Japan swung her three masts overboard. Every moment the crew thought the ship would sink, the sea breaking over the ship. Yet instead of thinking of death, Captain Ahab and"
"""He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man"" who nevertheless ""has his humanities"". They hire Queequeg the following morning. A man named Elijah prophesies a dire fate should Ishmael and Queequeg join Ahab. While provisions are loaded, shadowy figures board the ship. On a cold Christmas Day, the ""Pequod"" leaves the harbor. Ishmael discusses cetology (the zoological classification and natural history of the whale), and describes the crew members. The chief mate is 30-year-old Starbuck, a Nantucket Quaker with a realist mentality, whose harpooneer is Queequeg; second mate is Stubb, from Cape Cod, happy-go-lucky and cheerful, whose harpooneer is Tashtego, a proud,"
"which recounts Ishmael's survival. About 3,200 copies were sold during the author's life. Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford, Massachusetts with plans to sign up for a whaling voyage. The inn where he arrives is overcrowded, so he must share a bed with the tattooed Polynesian Queequeg, a harpooneer whose father was king of the fictional island of Rokovoko. The next morning, Ishmael and Queequeg attend Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah, then head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up with the Quaker ship-owners Bildad and Peleg for a voyage on their whaler ""Pequod"". Peleg describes Captain Ahab:"
"John Perkins (Royal Navy officer) Captain John Perkins (died 27 January 1812), nicknamed Jack Punch, was a British Royal Navy officer. Perkins was perhaps the first mulatto commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. He rose from obscurity to be one of the most successful ship captains of the Georgian navy. He captained a 10-gun schooner during the American War of Independence and in a two-year period captured at least 315 enemy ships. Later in his career Perkins acted for the navy as a spy and undertook missions to Cuba and Saint-Domingue (modern day Haiti). At the start of the slave"
"its production in November 2015. Dallas Opera revived the original production in November 2016. For their January 2018 performance, Utah Opera built a set and created costumes to make the opera more accessible to regional opera companies with constrained budgets. Unlike the earlier productions, the set is designed so that it can be adjusted to many different venues. ""Scenes 1-4. Day One: The whaling ship ""Pequod"" has been at sea for one week."" Captain Ahab is alone on deck before dawn. Below deck, most of the crew is sleeping. The harpooneer Queequeg prays and wakes Greenhorn (the novel's Ishmael, renamed"
"next gams with the ""Jungfrau"" from Bremen. Both ships sight whales simultaneously, with the ""Pequod"" winning the contest. The three harpooneers dart their harpoons, and Flask delivers the mortal strike with a lance. The carcass sinks, and Queequeg barely manages to escape. The ""Pequod""s next gam is with the French whaler ""Bouton de Rose"", whose crew is ignorant of the ambergris in the gut of the diseased whale in their possession. Stubb talks them out of it, but Ahab orders him away. Days later, an encounter with a harpooned whale prompts Pip, a little black cabin-boy from Alabama, to jump"
"for the opera), who is a loner and newcomer to whaling. Dawn breaks and the call is made for ""All Hands!"" The crew raises the ship's sails. Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask talk about Ahab, whom no one has seen since the Pequod left Nantucket. After the crew sings of whales, wealth and home, Captain Ahab suddenly appears. He tells them of Moby Dick, the white whale that took off one of his legs. He then nails a gold doubloon to the mast and promises it to the man who first sights Moby Dick. Ahab explains that the real reason for"
"HMS Pembroke (1757) HMS ""Pembroke"" was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 2 June 1757. ""Pembroke"" was converted to serve as a hulk in 1776, and was eventually broken up in 1793. For her first two years ""Pembroke"" was captained by John Simcoe, the father of John Graves Simcoe who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. When the elder Simcoe died in 1759 he was replaced by John Wheelock who served as captain"
"whalebone for a prosthesis. Neither sick nor well, Ahab keeps close inside the house. Ahab is 58 years old at the time of ""Pequod""s last voyage. Peleg and Bildad pilot the ship out of the harbor, and Ahab first appears on deck when the ship is already at sea. Instead of embarking on a regular whaling voyage, Ahab declares he is out for revenge and nails a doubloon on the mast by way of reward for the crewmember who first sights Moby Dick, the white whale. When Moby Dick is eventually sighted, a disastrous three-day chase begins. Entangled by the"
"account in sermon form; Reynolds cites examples from as early as 1829. Such sermons employed nautical metaphors and colloquialisms, ""producing a mixture of the imaginative and the sacred that directly anticipated Father Mapple's salty sermon"". In chapters 7-9, Ishmael, a sailor about to sail for Nantucket where he will embark on a whaling voyage with Captain Ahab on the ""Pequod"", goes to the Whaleman's Chapel in New Bedford. Father Mapple appears and climbs a rope ladder to his pulpit, which is the form of a ship's prow: ""Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and"
"way to fix its location. The ""Pequod"" is now heading southeast toward Moby Dick. A man falls overboard from the mast. The life buoy is thrown, but both sink. Now Queequeg proposes that his superfluous coffin be used as a new life buoy. Starbuck orders the carpenter take care it is lidded and caulked. Next morning, the ship meets in another truncated gam with the ""Rachel"", commanded by Captain Gardiner from Nantucket. The ""Rachel"" is seeking survivors from one of her whaleboats which had gone after Moby Dick. Among the missing is Gardiner's young son. Ahab refuses to join the"
"to replace the ""Pequod""s life buoy. The ""Pequod"" sails northeast toward Formosa and into the Pacific Ocean. Ahab, with one nostril, smells the musk from the Bashee isles, and with the other, the salt of the waters where Moby Dick swims. Ahab goes to Perth, the blacksmith, with a bag of racehorse shoenail stubs to be forged into the shank of a special harpoon, and with his razors for Perth to melt and fashion into a harpoon barb. Ahab tempers the barb in blood from Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo. The ""Pequod"" gams next with the ""Bachelor"", a Nantucket ship heading"
"1900, Walter and Flora Brown filed their plat for the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 section 10 in T136N-R29W under the title Pequot. The Pequot Indians are a tribe that used to dominate southeastern New England before the English colonists arrived. While no Pequot tribe members lived in Minnesota, they spoke an Algonquian language related to that of the local Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribes. Author Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel ""Moby-Dick"" as the ""Pequod"". Two possible explanations for the town's name arise: 1. The local historian Carl Zapffe suggests that a variation of the Chippewa word"
"home full of sperm oil. Every now and then, the ""Pequod"" lowers for whales with success. On one of those nights in the whaleboat, Fedallah prophesies that neither hearse nor coffin can be Ahab's, that before he dies, Ahab must see two hearses — one not made by mortal hands and the other made of American wood — that Fedallah will precede his captain in death, and finally that only hemp can kill Ahab. As the ""Pequod"" approaches the Equator, Ahab scolds his quadrant for telling him only where he is and not where he will be. He dashes it"
"1839, the same day that James C. William was appointed the American consul to the island. With that accomplished, Commander Wilkes left Upolu to continue his voyage around the world. Trade with the Samoans went well until about a year later, when the natives at Upolu killed another American. When Commander Wilkes learned of the death, he detached two vessels from his squadron to sail back to Samoa. The twenty-two gun sloop-of-war USS ""Peacock"" and the small two gun schooner USS ""Flying Fish"" were under the command of Lieutenant William L. Hudson and Commandant Samuel R. Knox, respectively. The two"
"Assacumet Assacumet (also known as ""Assacomet"", ""Assecomet"", ""Sassacommett"", ""Saffacomoit"") was an early 17th-century Native American from the Wawenock Abenaki tribe. Assacumet was captured in 1605 by Capt. George Weymouth of the ship ""Archangel"" near the Pemaquid River in Maine together with four others. Some sources list the other four as ""Tasquantum"" (better known as Squanto), ""Manida"", ""Skettwarroes"", and ""Dehamda""; others list them as ""Tahanedo"" (""a Sagamo or Commander""), ""Amoret"", ""Skicowaros"", and ""Maneddo "" (listed as ""gentlemen"". Saffacomoit is listed as ""a servant"".) They were taken to England as slaves and curiosities. In England, Assacumet and at least two of the"
"sea, while the couple were en route to southern France to improve his failing health. The ship sank after colliding with the Scottish vessel ""Loch Earn"" in the north Atlantic Ocean on November 22, 1873; Peckham's last words were reported to be, ""Wife, we have to die, let us die bravely."" His remains were never recovered, and a cenotaph was erected at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York. Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809–1873) Rufus Wheeler Peckham (December 20, 1809 – November 22, 1873) was a judge and congressman from New York, and the father of a U.S. Supreme Court justice."
"Captain John Underhill John Underhill (7 October 1597 – 21 July 1672) was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also served as governor; the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York, settling on Long Island. Hired to train militia in New England, he is most noted for leading colonial militia in the Pequot War (1636-1637) and Kieft's War which the colonists mounted against two different groups of Native Americans. He also published an account of the Pequot War. John Underhill was one of"
"of both whale and hunt"". One of the most distinctive features of the book is the variety of genres. Bezanson mentions sermons, dreams, travel account, autobiography, Elizabethan plays, and epic poetry. He calls Ishmael's explanatory footnotes to establish the documentary genre ""a Nabokovian touch"". A significant structural device is the series of nine meetings (gams) between the ""Pequod"" and other ships. These meetings are important in three ways. First, their placement in the narrative. The initial two meetings and the last two are both close to each other. The central group of five gams are separated by about 12 chapters,"
"Chilean schooner Ancud (1843) The schooner Ancud was the ship sent by Chile in 1843 to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan. It was built for the purpose in the city of San Carlos de Ancud and commanded by John Williams Wilson a British born Chilean captain. The ""Ancud"" sailed out from Ancud on May 22, 1843. The crew were carrying supplies for the estimated seven months journey, as well as supplies to settle a colony in the Strait of Magellan. On board were 23 crew (20 men, 2 women, 1 child), of which about half would stay in"
"William Gordon Weld William Gordon Weld (1775–1825) was an American shipmaster and ship owner. He is notable as an ancestor of several famous Welds. Weld was a descendant of Joseph Weld, who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 17th century and was involved in the Pequot War and subsequent negotiations. Weld lived his early life in Weld Hall, the family home on Weld Hill in the Forest Hills section of what is now Jamaica Plain. Named after the prominent local revolutionary sympathizer and historian Reverend Dr. William Gordon, Weld was the fifth son of Colonel Eleazer Weld, one"
"Ted Hood Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American yachtsman and Naval architect. He started the company Hood Sailmakers in Marblehead, Massachusetts which makes sails. He won the America's Cup in 1974 skippering the yacht Courageous, which built at Minnefords Shipyard in City Island, New York, after which he built a faster yacht and sold Courageous to Ted Turner, who beat him in it on his way to winning the 1977 America's Cup. He built the Ted Hood Marine Complex in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1985, where he opened Little Harbor Marine. His full"
"Canoot Canoot (fl. 1698, real name unknown) was a French pirate active off the coast of New England. In early 1698 John Redwood of Philadelphia was sailing out of Maryland’s Sinepuxent Bay toward Cape May when he was attacked by Canoot and his pirates. They exchanged ships with Redwood, leaving him their slower vessel and taking his sloop. That September Canoot sailed to the waters off Sussex County, Delaware. Residents saw the sloop but were not alarmed. The following day he stormed the town of Lewes with fifty men, plundering everything of value, including the residents’ clothes, leaving them ""scarce"
"eyes. The head apparatus which could move like a rocking horse was employed when actors were in the water with the whale. Gregory Peck's last speech is delivered in the studio while riding the white whale's hump (a hole was drilled in the side of the whale so Peck could conceal his real leg). The ""Pequod"" was portrayed by, appropriately, the ""Moby Dick"". Built in England in 1887 as the ""Ryelands"", the ship came into the hands of the film industry in the 50s, and was also used in ""Treasure Island"". It was destroyed by fire in Morecambe, England in"
"they left the strait on 4 December to their way back. A full size replica of the ship was open to visitors in the Nao Victoria Museum in Punta Arenas, Chile. Chilean schooner Ancud (1843) The schooner Ancud was the ship sent by Chile in 1843 to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan. It was built for the purpose in the city of San Carlos de Ancud and commanded by John Williams Wilson a British born Chilean captain. The ""Ancud"" sailed out from Ancud on May 22, 1843. The crew were carrying supplies for the estimated seven months journey,"
"1878. They had four children: Mary (born 1880), Henrietta (born 1882), John Westcott II (born 1884), and Charles (born 1890), all born in Detroit. Westcott died on August 17, 1913, at the age of 64. John Ward Westcott John Ward Westcott (December 19, 1848 – August 17, 1913) was an American ship captain on the Great Lakes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He is noted for making and developing the first floating range lights for safe navigation in Lake St. Clair at the Detroit River. He developed a mail system between moving Great Lakes freighters, that ultimately"