The wreck is the first discovery of a wrecked Nantucket whaling ship. Ishmael is a young sailor who joins the crew of the whaling ship "Pequod". His best friend, Augustus Barnard, is the son of the captain of a whaling ship. He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship "Pequod". One day, Oberlus notices the arrival of his former whaling ship. She is the only preserved 19th century whaling ship in the world. The white giant smashes into the whaling ship and it sinks. In 1946, the whaling ship "Pan Gothia" was re-christened the "Willem Barentsz". The last whaling ship visited Mangonui in 1885. The "Ariel" is overtaken by the "Penguin", a returning whaling ship. Further settlers arrived in 1846, aboard the whaling ship "Howard". HMS "Discovery" was a wooden screw storeship, formerly the whaling ship "Bloodhound". In 1820 Hongi Hika and Thomas Kendall travelled to England on the whaling ship . The last whaling ship to be built at Dundee was in 1884. The Ann Alexander was a whaling ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts.