You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi"
[DOC] [TLE] Herman Melville Biography - Brandeis Users' Home Pages [PAR] Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (3 volumes, London: Bentley, 1849; 2 volumes, New 
York: Harper, ... His short tales, "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," are carefully 
crafted and ... embrace not only his psychological and intellectual history but his 
responses, .... "I think you will find it a fitting successor to 'Typee,'" he wrote 
Murray,... [DOC] [TLE]  Teaching Materials for History and Anthology ... [PAR] All of us who read literature will find our knowledge of human affairs ...