American whaling ship Sylph visited Lahaina, Hawaii according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 20 October 1849

The New Pictorial and Illustrated Family Magazine established for the diffusion of useful knowledge, 

vol. III. Robert Sears editor, New York 1846.

An item reported the arrival at Lahaina, Hawaii on 8 October by the American whaling ship Sylph master Gardiner of New Bedford, coming clean from California and loading cargo for the USA. (1)

Note

1. There was in 1849 a whaler named Sylph and a master named Francis Macy Gardner nut she was from Fairhaven and returned in 1840 loaded with sperm and whale oil and whale bone.