On board with them is the cocky master harpooner Ned Land. Fedallah the Parsee, his harpooner, is a fire-worshipping Zoroastrian. He advertises for a harpooner, posing as a sea captain named Basil. The character Tashtego in Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick" is a Native American harpooner from Aquinnah. Harpooner was launched at Bristol in 1791. She first appeared in "Less than Hero", where she was impaled by Harpooner. Once aboard the whaling ship "Pequod", Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck. Harpooner was launched at Whitby in 1769, or possibly a few years later.