Possible Clues:

• Melville sailor
• Herman Melville novella
• Melville hero
• Melville's 'handsome sailor'
• Melville's "handsome sailor"
• Britten opera poster put up by posh churchman
• Indomitable foretopman
• Melville's doomed character in 'Graham' by Zola?
• Melville novel
• Title hero of a Melville story