American master Walker with the Kingfisher bound home according to the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald dated 13 February 1860

An item dated Mongonui 23 January referred to the American whaler Jireh Swift which reported that master Walker sold his part of the George and Mary and departed home on 28 November 1859 from the Sandwich Islands with the Kingfisher (late Palmer). 

The House of Lords’ interview with South Sea whaling entrepreneur Charles Enderby on 6 April 1838

An item referred to the interview with Charles Enderby of the firm of Charles, Henry and George Enderby, which firm for several years was involved in the South whaling. His father [Samuel, 17 January 1719 September 1797] started with whaling in the South in 1775. Before he he was involved via his agents in the USA. He did not gave an exact number of the number of whalers possessed by his firm, just saying a good many although less then in the past. Enderby thought that in 1794 the first time ws that one of their whalers visited New Zealand. Since then they continued visiting New Zealand for obtaining supplies for instance spars. The timber there was of a very good quality. A voyage to and back from New Zealand took 4 months; trading vessels commonly returned via Cape Horn. Natives were also hired as crew member now and in the past and considered generally to be good and well-behaven seaman. Enderby even stated much better that British sailors. They served the whole voyage. Some of them were chiefs and some served as harpooners.

Enderby was asked if he believed that a tax could cause excesses elsewhere particularly at the Society Islands. He denied the latter but saying that heavy taxes would result in visits to Papua New Guinea, in fact all Pacific islands. At the moment was the annual number 100 ships and it was possible that 40-50 should go elsewhere. He referred to the very high charges in Chilean and Peruvian harbours with as results that whalers just occasionally paid a visit. He could not confirm what the charges were in Valparaiso, Chile while none of his whalers had been there in the last decades. His whalers were active between the poles, Japan and Sandwich Islands and made voyages of 2-4 years with an average of 3 years 3 months. One of his ships had been involved in an excess at the Friendly Islands when an apprentice deserted and the native refused to assist to get this man. He fired with his six with grape loaded guns and afterwards landed with a boat of which the crew was cut off. Such excesses were usually to blaim the masters although quite a lot of the problems was caused when sailors interfered with women.

Source

Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the present state of the islands of New Zealand and The Expediency of regulating the Settlement of British Subjects therein; with the minutes of evidence taken before the committee and an index thereto. Ordered to be printed 3 April 1838.

Russia seizing island to be used as whaling station according to the Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder courant dated 12 August 1817

An item dated London, England 1^st referred to the National Advocate stating that Russia seized an island in the Pacific near the Sandwich Islands and which was in the meantime strengthened and to be used as a whaling station.. Furthermore was said that whaling was important for Russia while this country used a huge quantity of train oil. The newspaper expected that with a capable government using all available means on short notice Russian ships could be seen all over the world.

US Navy founding coals bunker stations on American Samoa and the Sandwich islands according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1892-1893 no. 6

An item referred to the Army and Naval Journal reporting that the US Navy intended to found a coal bunker station at Pago Paga, Samoa Islands [American Samoa]. The negotiations for buying the necessary area for building the necessary buildings and a 270 feet long quay were still going on. It was expected that a similar station would be founded on the Sandwich Islands.

Maritime flag of Sandwich Islands around 1848

Source
J.W. Norie/J.S. Hobbs. Three hundred and six illustrations of the maritime flags off all nations. London, 1848.

Clipper ship Syren arrived at New Bedford, USA with catches of American whalers according to the Whalemen’s Shipping List dated Tuesday 16 August 1859

An item reported the arrival on Thursday 11th of the clipper ship Syren Captain Green of Boston, USA and the Gladiator captain Luce of New Bedford, USA fully loaded with oil and whalebone coming from the Sandwich Islands. The Syren left Honolulu, Hawaii on 16th April and the Gladiator on 31st March.

American whalers Belle and Arctic lying at Guam on 19 March according to the Whalemen’s Shipping List dated Tuesday 16 August 1859

A letter written by captain Brown on board of the bark Belle (1) of Fairhaven reporting her lying at Guam on 19th March. Since she left the Sandwich Islands (2) consisted her catch of just 50 barrels sperm oil. He intended the same day to leave towards the Bonin Islands for a cruise. Brown also reported that arrival in the 18th of the Arctic (3) captain Phillips of Fairhaven without a catch since leaving the Bonin Islands.(4)

Notes
1. Tonnage 320 tons, shipping agent Edmund Allen, departed on 22 October 1857 towards the Pacific.
2. Hawaii?
3. Tonnage 431 tons, shipping agent Edmund Allen, departed on 23 July 1858 towards the Pacific.
4. The archipelago Bonin islands or Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The British HMS 5th rate Blonde bringing the bodies of the king and queen of Hawaii back according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 31 July 1824

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)

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.”

British cable ship Dominia towards the Pacific according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 13 September 1926

An item dated London 123 September reported that the Dominia world largest cable ship left Greenwich a day earlier towards the Pacific to lay down a cable between Vancouver and the Fanning Isles south of the Sandwich Isles. The cable with a length of 3,500 nautical miles was the longest cable ever of one piece. Every day were 200 nautical miles of cables to be laid some times on a depth of 3,400 fathoms.

The Prussian merchant ship Mentor arriving at Swinemunde according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 28 October 1824

Swinemunde, Prussia, 14 October. The day before yesterday arrived the Prussian ship Mentor of 200 Prussian lasten master J.A. Harmsen and senior merchant Willem Oswald with 22 sailors at Swinemunde after a voyage around the world or 39.000 sea miles. Fitted out by merchants of Berlin with Prussian manufactures of the factory of F. en E. Delius of Bremen she left the river Wezer 16 December 1822 towards the West coast of South America visiting the Sandwich Islands, Java and Saint Helena and returning full loaded including tea from Canton. Not a singe sailor was lost during the voyage. Without dropping her anchor she entered the harbour despite her draught of 14½ feet. In 1818 started works in Swinemunde while the water was just 6½ feet deep, nowadays 17 or 18 feet. On board of the Mentor was a large amount of foreigners when she returned.