What is the name of Captain Ahab's ship?

Captain Ahab's ship in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is the Pequod. The Pequod is a fictional Nantucket whaling ship that carries Ahab and his multinational crew on a three-year voyage across the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans.

At the beginning of the novel, Ishmael arrives in Nantucket and chooses the Pequod after Queequeg's idol, Yojo, indicates that it is the right ship for them. The vessel is more than a setting: it becomes the central stage for the novel's conflicts, philosophical debates, and descriptions of nineteenth-century whaling life.

Ahab turns the voyage into a personal hunt for Moby Dick, the white whale that previously bit off his leg. His obsession overrides the practical purpose of the expedition and places the crew in increasing danger. In the climactic three-day chase, Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and kills Ahab. Ishmael survives by clinging to Queequeg's coffin until the ship Rachel rescues him. The name “Pequod” recalls the Pequot people of New England.