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 /’varl and //arvest 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 Hohola, bark Eagle, bark Oregon, bark [ae 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 Wm. //. 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 Win. 7. Allen dropped out 
of the business in 1872. 
In 1869 the fleet comprised the following vessels: 
Rig. Name. | Tons. 
ISO? So 6 Ao ee See eee Em eres i Sanath KeOhOlayiaceterptmere on acne eee ae eee | 70 
Rare see oon ace ce ace ceseeeacmeooens SATCULOR eee eee ee cot ineany mee ae 125 
[BN ns Get GENS Gap eA ter mB mE San are 1 E40) OVO) 5 eA die re cee en Oa PE eee ARENT 207 
SEAT ee ete ace bs = ne Saale cteie isis seeisjzinisis wae ee eles Bae leer eet meine see remer ns Fabre ee Tyee. 382 
Bn ean ble pee eees fae facie occ scooter Wim BisAllen: 252 seis paca sen ihe aoe 157 
SED ae ees ao isa SS obh daemieeere csememne CountiBismancksss2922 5 eee 222282 ae Lane 453 
aes res oe wiete steven slelelee eee eis tices eee Wilhel imei es Dae ie tees Saas oe ese 463 
PL yeas See nie es ioersraieie eu. aoe = sles WE See rein start COMETS ane tse c eke ee aa tacts cree Ae 255 
SI) Sosenance SOS cs Secon eee op aeereeoponeder SMUT ATS See cect coe eis sees ena eee 362 
[EN SBSH OHO BOO CRORE R EADS nee Orr ncrricic let ee) SONS eS ROCEEE CIS a OSORee OO Bare Eee acre 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 Il. Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1891, pp. 130, 181. 
