what is a pequod skipper

A Pequod skipper is a character from the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville). The Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship, and the skipper of the ship is Captain Ahab). The novel is centered around the three-year whaling expedition of the Pequod and its crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, in the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans).