File:Cleopatra's Barge 1818.jpg

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English: Cleopatra's Barge was a yacht built in Massachusetts in 1816 which sailed across the Atlantic (including a visit to Napoleon). It was then sold to King Kamehameha II of Hawaii, who used it as a royal yacht. It sunk in the Hawaiian Islands in 1824 off the northern coast of Kaua'i on Hanalei Bay.
Date 1818
date QS:P571,+1818-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer exhitibit M-8255 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts http://historywired.si.edu/enlarge.cfm?ID=218&ShowEnlargement=2

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