captain gardiner
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- description
- The captain of the ship 'Rachel', who earnestly sought Captain Ahab's help in finding lost children but was refused.
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- father of a missing son
- motivation
- seeking lost children
- origin
- Nantucket
- ship_commanded
- Rachel
- title
- Captain
- vessel
- Rachel
Relationships
- searches_forMissing Whale-boat (Rachel's)
- description
- Captain Gardiner reveals his purpose in boarding the Pequod is to enlist its help in searching for his lost whale-boat.
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- He desired that ship to unite with his own in the search;
- is_fromNantucket
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- Ahab recognizes Captain Gardiner as someone he knows from Nantucket, implying a shared origin.
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- recognised by Ahab for a Nantucketer he knew.
- is_father_ofCaptain Gardiner's Son
- description
- Captain Gardiner reveals that his own son is among the crew of the missing boat, explaining his desperate plea.
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- “My boy, my own boy is among them.
- pleads_withAhab
- description
- Captain Gardiner earnestly begs Ahab to charter his ship for forty-eight hours to search for his missing son.
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- For God’s sake—I beg, I conjure”—here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far had but icily received his petition. “For eight-and-forty hours let me charter your ship—I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it—if there be no other way—for eight-and-forty hours only—only that—you must, oh, you must, and you _shall_ do this thing.”
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:04:24.042Z
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- commandsRachel (Ship)
- description
- Captain Gardiner is the commander of the vessel 'Rachel', which he returns to after being refused by Captain Ahab.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:07:57.990Z
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