This tattoo belongs to r.h.rippe.
This is an illustration of Starbuck from a 1930′s illustrated version of Moby Dick: or, the Whale by Herman Melville. Art by Rockwell Kent.
Scarlet Letter / Moby Dick mashup
This tattoo belongs to Kristen. It is the scarlet A (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) with a harpoon through it (Moby-Dick by Herman Melville).