London, 24 July. The newspaper l’Etoile published the news that the government had ordered that the bodies of the King and Queen of the Sandwich islands [Hawaii] were to be brought on board of the frigate the Bleue [the HMS Blonde] commanded by captain Lord Byron and transported to the island Owihi to be buried there as they had wished.(1)
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Blonde_(1819)
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1. 46-gun 5th rate of the Apollo-class. Ordered 11 December 1812, laid down at the Deptford Dockyard March 1816, launched 12 January 1819 and completed 1824, renamed Calypso 9 March 1870 and sold on 28 February 1895. She “departed Woolwich on 8 September 1824 with the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu of the Kingdom of Hawaii who had died while trying to visit King George IV.”
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Blonde_(1819)
Note
1. 46-gun 5th rate of the Apollo-class. Ordered 11 December 1812, laid down at the Deptford Dockyard March 1816, launched 12 January 1819 and completed 1824, renamed Calypso 9 March 1870 and sold on 28 February 1895. She “departed Woolwich on 8 September 1824 with the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu of the Kingdom of Hawaii who had died while trying to visit King George IV.”
