The '' is a fictional
Submarine in
Lemony Snicket 's ''
A Series Of Unfortunate Events ''. The vessel has so far only been seen in ''
The Grim Grotto '', and was mentioned in ''
The Penultimate Peril ''. The submarine was built by the fire-fighting side of
V.F.D. , presumably after the schism. The submarine is in disrepair, with reference being made in ''
The Slippery Slope '' to a firepole being used as a large axle in a submarine.
The boat has a "crew of two" who usually number three:
Captain Widdershins , the captain,
Fiona Widdershins , chief engineer, and
Phil , the cook. Prior to her death, Fiona's mother was the "second" of the crew of two, and the submarine saw numerous replacements for her before Phil's arrival, including the Snicket brothers and a woman who turned out to be a spy. The crew is later joined by
Violet ,
Klaus and
Sunny Baudelaire . The chief purpose of the submarine is to find the
Sugar Bowl , which had been washed from the
V.F.D. headquarters in the
Mortmain Mountains out to sea and into the Gorgonian Grotto.
The vessel is named after
Queequeg from
Moby-Dick , and for this reason, the crew all wear shirts with the face of
Herman Melville , author of Moby Dick, as a uniform.
After the disappearance of Captain Widdershins and Phil, the ''Queequeg'' is captured by the ''Carmelita'' (named after
Carmelita Spats ), an octupus-shaped submarine belonging to
Count Olaf . Subsequently, Fiona joins the crew of the ''Carmelita'' in order to stay with her brother Fernald. However, she helps the Baudelaires escape and take the submarine to
Briny Beach , where they meet
Kit Snicket . It is assumed that the submarine was abandoned there. In ''The Penultimate Peril'', Lemony Snicket mentions that, because he misread a group of sausages as spelling a K rather than an R, he caused the loss of 'an important bathyscaphe', possibly referring to the Queequeg.
