some of the oilcasks in the hold of the ship were leaking
The name of Captain Ahab's first mate was Starbuck. Which is where Starbucks got their name for their coffee.
Ahab refused to stop the pequod & threatened starbuck with a musket.
Stubb decided that laughing it off was the best approach to Captain Ahab's obsession with killing the white whale.
Ahab was a powerful king in biblical times, and Ahab was a captain in fiction.
Captain Ahab was the captain of the Pequod in the novel Moby-Dick. He is on a quest for revenge against the white whale, Moby Dick, which leads to the tragic end of the ship and its crew.
The antagonist of the novel Moby Dick is Captain Ahab, the obsessed and vengeful captain of the whaling ship Pequod who seeks revenge on the white whale, Moby Dick, for taking his leg during a previous encounter.
Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, the ship going out to hunt Moby-Dick, the white whale.
In the 1956 movie adaptation of Moby Dick, Gregory Peck plays Captain Ahab.
Captain Ahab is the character who hunted Moby Dick in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
Help him find his missing son who was on a whale boat
the caption told ahab that he did not believe the white whale exsisted