@the-gipper said:

Isn't the Pequot the name of the ship destroyed by Moby D-i-c-k?

You are correct!

And I found out there were ships named Pequot in the Civil War and WWII also and this unusual story:

In 1634, Pequot Indians captured a vessel commanded by English trader John Stone at the mouth of the Connecticut River. They killed him in retaliation for the death of a Pequot leader. It was the only time in Stone’s life he could be considered innocent.

Stone was an independent trader who worked the New England coast. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony reviled him for his rowdy ways, which included excessive drinking, blasphemy, bullying and sleeping with married women. He was, however, from a well-connected British family (a cousin was governor or Maryland). So rather than punish Stone, the Puritans banned him on penalty of death should he return.

As a freelancer, Stone was half trader and half pirate, traveling between England, America and the Indies wreaking havoc as he went. He was, at one point, even accused of cannibalism. He kidnapped Indians and forced them to guide his ship and wasn’t above trying to sell them. His actions were an offense to both the Indians and the colonists, who needed Indian trade....... CONTINUED IN LINK. ........

http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/1634-john-stone-lost-connecticut-fog-war/