COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 483 
One of the new vessels to start in the business about 1860 was the 
schooner Aalama, of 85 tons. This vessel was built at Waterford, 
Conn., in 1846. She arrived at the islands in 1857 under the name 
Queen of the West, when ‘*‘Capt. John Meek purchased her and 
named her after the dowager Queen Kalama, relict of Kamehameha 
IJI, and placed her in the coasting trade July 14, 1857, on the wind- 
ward route. A short time afterwards J. I. Dowsett bought her and 
put her in the whaling service under command of L. Kelly. In the 
winter of 1861 she made a very successful season in company with the 
brig Comet, returning here April 11, 1862, reporting 1,200 barrels. 
She was then sold and subsequently used as coaster, royal yacht, 
guano searcher, sperm whaler, and again as coaster.” * 
On April 1, 1865, the Hawaiian vessels Pearl and Harvest were lying 
at Ascension in company with a number of American whalers, when 
the Confederate steamer Shenandoah destroyed the whole fleet, the 
Hawaiian vessels being burned so that they could not warn other vessels. 
Their owners were reimbursed by the American Government from 
the money paid by Great Britain as a result of the Alabama Claims 
Commission award. 
In 1867 the fleet comprised the following vessels: Schooner Pye/, 
brig Aohola, bark Hagle, bark Oregon, bark Hae Hawaii, brig Comet. 
Three more were added to the fleet late in the year, the schooners 
Wm. H. Allen and Emeline and the bark Julian, but they did no 
whaling in 1867. Some of the Bremen whalers were also owned in 
Honolulu at this period. 
In 1868 the schooner Wim. 7/7. Allen sperm-whaled among the Bonin 
Islands and got 300 barrels of sperm oil. In 1870 she visited the coast 
of Peru, where she got 220 barrels of sperm oil. Sperm-whaling at this 
time was rather unusual among the whalers frequenting the islands, 
as most of them were engaged in right and humpback whaling in the 
North Pacific and the Arctic oceans. The Wm. //. Allen dropped out 
of the business in 1872. 
In 1869 the fleet comprised the following vessels: 


Rig. Name. | Tons. 



ToT (eee a Se ee Se OO Res OSS 1520) 110} EF iq gencCiD HOO COO AE ESOC CED EOOAR ae ELC os | 270 
BSE ie nn oe nee Sa eos oboe asa sew wiste seroeiew es one ANCUICHS Renee tieetis cits srs aeek 2 naote seen 425 
add tgs et Re Aa oe eee ee 1070) ¢ (Sts oer OnE Be aeEe eee cea arose cmaon 207 
De OE eet ae AEC Bee ne oe eee ees BP Oia cece ciscreieyociese <ic e mameicaciste eres 382 
BGlenuine are sor son cd as oases se cciake Wan  ANen soa aicraaic fee selec ee eeteceee 157 
ULES etter oA ae ce meee ctw s ss eae oes c case CountiBismareks: 32. 55-4.-c52sesee seine ae 453 
Tein SS the, Se ee ae iat: Airey ae eee Wilhelmaso ou saten sone seas see raaeeoes eee 463 
ESNet sr ste Perel chess x it Res oer ctore:s Ne, cxmiee COME Era ces ee ca as eee dea ee aac et eee meta 255 
SE eee Ree ten ce Male dure access cae ss,c MT eee dolce Saree et Cte aise stores See eemiare 362 
JE ee eee ee ee ee ea ee MIE Here te cicecieaciete saice a ee eee hee eis 386 

In 1871 a terrible disaster happened to the whaling fleet in the Arctic 
Ocean by which 34 vessels were abandoned in the ice. Among these 


* Hawaiian Maritime History, Part IJ. Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1891, pp. 130, 131. 
