Step 1 : Introduction to the question "In the 1851 novel Moby-Dick, what was the name of Captain Ahab's ship?"
Pequod is the fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the novel Moby-Dick by author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition. Most of the characters in the novel are part of Pequod's crew, including the narrator Ishmael. It is revealed that Pequod was named for the Pequot tribe of Native Americans, decimated and scattered in the early 1600s by the Pequot War. Moby Dick was published on this day in 1851.