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Bow view of Barque / Whaler PEQUOD. Tugs also in image.

Built 1887 by Nicholson & Marsh, Glasson Dock near Lancaster, as the three-masted top-sail schooner RYELANDS (149gt), carrying coal from Newcastle to other parts of the UK. She was acquired by the Disney Studios and ‘performed’ as the HISPANIOLA in the 1950 film “Treasure Island”, after which she was set up as a tourist attraction. John Huston acquired her for the 1954 film “Moby Dick”, and ‘rebuilt’ her as the PEQUOD, by refitting a tiller made from whalebones, and other details, to conform with the original book. Filming started in Wales in 1951, hence her presence at Cardiff Docks. She was destroyed by fire at Morecambe in 1972.